Category: Autumn

Throw some Spanish piquillo peppers or char-grilled bell pepper, black olives and a smattering of orange zest on top of this casserole and things become wildly exotic!

Crêpe Cake with Apple Marmelade, Honey Cream & Crushed Praline

This is one of those OHMYGOD! cakes – simply sensational!!!

Slow-cooked Beef Cheeks with Balsamic

Meltingly tender, richly flavoured, perfect for chilly days.

Smoked Salmon & Fennel Salad

Yes, yes, another riff on these fabulous ingredients – I can’t help myself!

Grilled Broccolini with Feta

Skinny green stems never tasted so good.

Baked Potatoes in White Wine – time to revisit

White wine keeps the interior of these potatoes nice and fluffy, but the outsides develop a good golden crunch. Pretty good, yep.

Pears

Pears are often overlooked for novel or exotic fruit and I reckon it’s because we’ve lost the art of ripening them and we’re eating them hard.

Potato & Celeriac Mash with Crispy Bacon

Pillowy mash with little salty nuggets of bacon – go on, make it, you know you want some!

Ilaria’s Burnt Orange Soup

This soup is insanely easy – you probably can’t get much simpler than this.

Chicken with Spanish Flavours

Whoop-de-whoop! Chicken, chorizo, smoked paprika, char-grilled red pepper, orange & olives … all you need is a fork!

Cavolo Nero – with chilli!

Green leafy things get a kick along

Love your spuds

… so much you can do with them. Woo-hoo!

Baked Potatoes Stuffed with Smoked Fish & Paprika

Time to get off the couch and get cooking!

Fresh Leaf Salad with Asian Flavours

Oh yay! A big bowl of salad greens that tastes so good, you can eat it on its own.