White Bean & Chorizo Stew
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!
Recipes
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Crêpe Cake with Apple Marmelade, Honey Cream & Crushed Praline
This is one of those OHMYGOD! cakes – simply sensational!!!
Lamb Stuffed with Olives
Here’s your answer for a quick roast that’s easy to prepare and cook … and that’s also scrumptious!
- Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Main Events | Winter
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!
Avocado on Pide with Preserved Lemon & Bacon
This is great for a decadent brunch or lunch, or serve as a substantial telly snack (you know, while watching the rugby or whatever)
- Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Hero Vege | Ilaria’s Recipes | Winter
Grilled Broccolini with Feta
Skinny green stems never tasted so good.
- Autumn/Fall | Carbie Stuff | Dinner | Hero Vege | Winter
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.
- Dinner | Free Recipes | Lunch | Soups & Suppers | Winter
Pea Soup with Spicy Sprinkle
Peas in a soup? Yeah! Thick, warming, intriguing … oh, and speedy, and requiring little more than a bag of frozen peas and a few spices. This was so popular last week, I’ve kept it up for another blast!
- Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Hero Vege | Winter
Potato & Celeriac Mash with Crispy Bacon
Pillowy mash with little salty nuggets of bacon – go on, make it, you know you want some!
- Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Ilaria’s Recipes | Lunch | Soups & Suppers | Summer | Winter
Ilaria’s Burnt Orange Soup
This soup is insanely easy – you probably can’t get much simpler than this.
- Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Main Events | Winter
Chicken with Spanish Flavours
Whoop-de-whoop! Chicken, chorizo, smoked paprika, char-grilled red pepper, orange & olives … all you need is a fork!
Baked Potatoes Stuffed with Smoked Fish & Paprika
Time to get off the couch and get cooking!
Devilled Chicken Wings
Something for summer days, easy, tasty, everyone loves these …
- Autumn/Fall | Salads | Summer | Winter
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.
Rhubarb, Apple & Ginger Crumble
Yep, someone ate it all up!
Summer Broad Bean & Pea Salad
The last few weeks in London have been an absolute dream. The sky is blue (mostly), and dotted with white puffy pillows of cloud … Ilaria dines in London with her flatmates.
Roasted Broccoli with Mozzarella & Sultanas
Melting mozzarella atop roasted broccoli, with sultanas, chillies, anchovies and pine nuts can only have one place of origin: Sicily!
- Autumn/Fall | Cakes & Bakes | Dinner | Drinks | Free Recipes | Lunch | Winter
Cheese Straws
Good with wine, good with beer, easy to eat, and delicious. What more do you want from a cheese straw?
- Autumn/Fall | Dinner | Drinks | Pies & Tarts | Winter
Leek & Bacon Tartlets
Mmmmm creamy leeks with bacon and mustard all stuffed into little rounds of cheesy pastry …
Sicilian Ricotta Crostata
O-ho, this is rich – chocolate, Marsala-soaked fruits and pastry – but sooooo delicious!
Hummus – best-ever!
I love smooth and creamy hummus but loathe commercial brands that stink of processed garlic and repeat on you later with an acrid throat burn. Making it from scratch is easy.
Deep-fried Eggs with Chillies
Oh, the speed. And the taste! These eggs will take your breath away.
Crying lamb
Rark up the oven and get cooking a leg of lamb …
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