Category: Autumn

Best-ever plum jam

What’s this little bundle of joy?
Read the 101 of jam making here and you’ll be away … tips galore!

Potato Salad

Potato salad ready to go! Think picnic, barbecue or summer snacking.

Baked Eggplant & Peppers with Mozzarella

Not quite vegan, though still delicious without mozzarella, this makes a stunning centrepiece for a vegetarian meal.

Green Tomato & Avocado Salad

Pretty, sweet and sharp, green tomatoes make a perfect foil to the nutty taste and rich texture of avocados.

Hazelnuts

Toasty roasty coffeeish – that’s toasted hazelnuts! Here’s how to do it.

Hot-smoked Salmon Salad with Beets, Potatoes & Yoghurt Dill Sauce

Summer on a plate! Delicious and good for you. Rings all the bells …

Pickled Beets

Sweet but tangy, just the right balance.

Fennel seed and other such things

Letting some fennel plants go to seed, (accidentally or on purpose), will ensure you have fresh fennel seeds to use in dishes.

Baked Eggplant with Spices & Preserved Lemon

Bake a batch of these bad boys, grab some olives, good bread, tomatoes – that kind of thing – and have an easy summer feast!

Baked Peppers with Feta

Here’s a quickie for midweek. Team these peppers with a grain salad and leafy greens for a healthy meal.

Baked Butterkin

Cute little butterkin … it doesn’t know whether it’s a butternut or a pumpkin, but who cares, it tastes delicious!

Cauliflower with Verjuice

Cauliflower spans the seasons as this dish shows.

3 ways with carrots

Carrots are often added to a plate for colour … but they can be the centre of a delicious all-vegetable dinner.

Fennel – fancy things up with feathery leaves or pollen

If I could resist harvesting my fennel bulbs, they would have babies, slim fennel-ettes would start forming that I could pluck out leaving the plant to continue growing and forming more of the same. But I can’t, of course.

Spinach Galettes

Sizzling and bubbling … utterly impossible to resist.

Vegetable Tray Bake & Tahini Yoghurt Sauce

Colour, crunch and good taste, and good for you. Yep, you can pig out on a tray of baked vegetables.

Witloof – just the right crunch for salad

Sort out the riddle: witloof, endive, chicory …

Ginger Chicken – thumping good thighs!

Once you get ginger and spices cooking you’ll have everyone sniffing the air!

Pasta with Yellow Peppers

The only trick here is to cook the yellow peppers slowly, so they exude sweetness and soften to the same texture as the pasta.

Kiwifruit Salsa

A handy little salsa to add a juicy sweet hot bite to your meals – try it spooned into the hollows of halved avocados.

Pink Salad – something to cheer you up

More. More. Give me MORE!

Ilaria’s Spicy Tomato Dal

Punchy heat in fire-engine red in the form of a spicy tomato dal – dig in!

Best-ever Roasted Parsnips with Crispy Parmesan & Garlic

Crank up the oven and get these roasting … best treatment for parsnips ever!

Spicy Fish with Curry Leaves

Rev up your midweek meals with a spicy fish curry.

Greek Pastitso

This is a big mamma of a baked pasta dish, perfect for those times when you need to feed a crowd.