Category: Spring

Buttery New Potatoes & Asparagus

Adding plenty of chives and lashings of butter to new potatoes and asparagus makes them more than fit for the Christmas table. But why wait until then?

Jersey bennes – get steaming!

Gloriously fudgy in texture, new season jersey benne potatoes are worth getting excited about.

Prawns & Crunchy Salad with Sesame Dressing

Succulent prawns with the crunch of a good salad, doused in a sweet sour sesame dressing with a nice bite of chilli is just the thing for hot weather.

Baby Broad Bean & Pea Salad – Amanida de Favetes I Pèsols

If you can find it in a deli, finely shaved duck jamón, tossed through at the end, dresses up this salad beautifully.

Radicchio

I love the striking colour of radicchio and the way it lifts a bowl of green salad … and it’s refreshing minerally bitter bite in other dishes.

Artichokes – did I mention spikes!

Deal to them – no mercy – lop the tops off the buggers along with any other spiky unloveable parts.

Linguine with Feta, Broad Beans, Pine Nuts & Rocket

Here’s a spring pasta dish that rings all the bells: bouncy fresh, packed with flavour, fast and filling. And good for you.

New Potatoes Roasted with Fresh Bay Leaves

New potatoes are great any which way … but roasted with fresh bay leaves they just may become your new favourite.

Asparagus & Orange Salad

Purple power – yep, purple asparagus, uncooked, adds sweetness and crunch to this salad.

Char-grilled Red Pepper, Orange & Green Olive Salad

A gorgeous salad. Bright and fresh and deliciously juicy.

Spring Salad with Feta & Broad Beans

Squishy avocado? Perfect home for it!

Asparagus & Red Pepper Stir-fry

Colourful and sweet, and fast!

Strawberries

Strawberries are seductive little things …

Pear Salad with Haloumi

Sublime – juicy pears cutting through salty crusty haloumi, and little bursts of sweet dates, piquant parmesan and nutty pine nuts.

Asparagus Salad with Orange & Cashews

Here’s something for the raw brigade – nice and crunchy, garlicky and juicy, with a smattering of creamy toasty cashews on top. Yep, I’ve even strewn the lot with flowers. Thank goodness the kitchen sink was tied down …

Asparagus with Eggs & Chorizo Crumb

Here’s a sexy little supper for two.

Scallops with Chorizo Crumb

This is a bit of a flash Harry … you know, Saturday night when you want to impress …
Get yourself some scallop shells and you’ll be quite the star of your little soirée.

Char-grilled Scallops with Guacamole

Scallops with Guac. Scallops with Guac Tra-la-la-la ….

Fresh Herb & Edible Flower Salad

Fresh, fragrant and downright pretty, edible flowers add character to a plain green salad. Yes they do!

Crushed Peas with Feta & Chervil

Off to the bakery you go for this recipe to get well-made bread that grills to an audible crunch, but doesn’t cut your mouth with dry sharp fragments.

Quick Lemon Curd

Easy when you know how – just use the right lemons!

Warm Carrot Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette

Keep them crunchy.

Fresh Tuna Salad

This is loosely modelled on a typical salad you might find around Nice … but there’s a bit of a leap of faith here.

Peas with Pancetta

Peas with little salty nuggets of pork belly. Whoop. Whoop.