Category: Autumn

Celeriac & Potato Soup with Bacon

This smells so good as it cooks … and tastes delicious!

Sunday Night Eggs

Smoky, sweet and spicy, these eggs are just the buzz for breakfast, brunch, lunch or supper.

Moroccan Meatballs

Meatballs that you don’t have to fry? Yep. Nice and easy.

Vegetable & Cannellini Bean Soup

This soup is a beauty. It used up half a dozen cans of my Covid stock of beans and tomatoes in the tests, and I was thankful for that, but it is the flavours I love, especially the day after making. It seems richer and tastier then

Smoked Fish & Chorizo Pie

Tender smoky fish topped with a golden potato crust is pretty mighty mid-week fare!

Spinach Pies from Crete

Golden filo pastry filled with creamy feta and spinach is as good to eat as it looks.

Hot Cross Bun Baked Pudding

Here’s a deluxe version of bread and butter pudding! You might need a nap after indulging though!

Corn Chowder

This is one of my favourite corn chowders adapted from a summer sweet corn soup recipe I used to make for the kids when they were little. They couldn’t get enough of it!

Baked Peppers with Feta & Capers

Colourful, sweet and tangy, these peppers are a hero dish for an all-vegetable meal.

Zucchini & Pine Nut Frittata

The frittata is at its best while still warm, about 1 hour after making. That makes it the perfect do-ahead dish.

Saturday Night Chicken & Chorizo

Squishing tender beans into the tasty juices is part of the fun!

Pear & Cos Salad

Juicy pear, parmesan and cos lettuce – simple and sublime.

Vegetable Souffle Gratin

The dish is good with slow-cooked beef or lamb, lamb chops, sausages, or to keep it an ‘all vegetable’ meal, something like green beans tossed with chopped black olives and a tangy, garlicky wintery salad with broccoli, pumpkin and feta. And it’s great as a ‘pot-luck’ dish.

Pork Schnitzel with Tomato & Caper Salsa

Golden and crunchy equals YUM in my book.

Green Beans with Curry Leaves

Fried curry leaves add their magic to green beans.

Lentils with Spinach & Ginger

Here’s a feisty way with inexpensive lentils. leftovers are great, too!

How big is a clove of garlic?

The clove in the picture above came from a regular-sized garlic ‘bulb’. The other cloves in the bulb were small to medium-sized. When you follow a recipe calling for a clove of garlic how big should that clove be? And does it matter? A regular garlic clove is roughly the size of an adult fingernail. […]