Main Ingredients - Saucy Dressings

Fish

Have it all crab, avocado and asparagus salad

They say you can’t have your cake and eat it, but this recipe is an example of just how wrong that can be. I’m an avid reader of Stephen Har...

Gilded cod with a tamarind sauce

This is another dish inspired by a recipe in The Turmeric Cookbook, the slim volume given to me by Tried & Supplied founder, Domini Hogg...

Quick Asian Sauce for Salmon

This is a sauce for salmon that is also a very quick way to cook salmon fillets whilst at the same time giving them a bit of pep. Serve w...

Meat

Stuffed peppers with smokey mince and slathered with minty yoghurt

The Saucy Dressings’ chief correspondent invented this dish of stuffed peppers, and I have tweaked it a bit, replacing her yoghurt with masc...

A slightly Japanese salad of steak leaves

A friend broke a favourite glass, and offered to cook lunch to make up for it – a very generous offer. The inspiration for what he made c...

Pork and Rhubarb Pie

Inspiration for this dish came from British cookery writer, Christine France, author of some thirty books and countless articles (she was, a...

Poultry

Duck breasts with rich Marsala and blackberry sauce

Well, it’s September….the evenings are beginning to close in…and the blackberries are there for the picking. Duck famously goes with somethi...

Nearly Reese Witherspoon’s Nut-crusted Chicken

"Hi. I’m Elle Woods and this is Bruiser Woods. We’re both Gemini vegetarians." -From Legally Blond - Bruiser Woods is her pink-coated chihu...

Simple chicken, fennel and lemon supper inspired by The Eating Tree

I’m not proud. I get my inspiration from just about everywhere and anywhere. I browse through markets and menus; I trawl newspapers, magazin...

Seafood

Zingy and light prawn orzo pasta with green highlights

Tried and Supplied founder, Domini Hogg, was inspired to invent this dish after talking with suppliers, Blue Sea of Aberdeen, about how they...

Sunset-inspired sweet and salty prawns with black rice

Well, alright! I’d be the first to accept that the image of this dish doesn’t look anything like the image of the startling sunset at the bo...

Salad of prawn, bean, avocado and mint

This is a very useful ‘one-pot’ salad. The prawns provide the protein, the beans the carbohydrate, and the avocado provides a significant co...

Vegetables

beetroot, apple, blue cheese and nut salad recipe

Life changing blue cheese and beetroot carpaccio salad all thanks to Nigel Slater

"Specific hatreds, however, should never be trifled with. People who will not (or say they will not) eat vegetables at all are fair game, b...

Spinach and ricotta with black sesame seeds recipe

Spinach with ricotta and black sesame seeds

It’s the black sesame seeds which make this dish, at least visually. All sesame plants have the same colour hull and fruit, but according...

Aloo Palak; or how I discovered that elephants are surprisingly good swimmers, and that potatoes go surprisingly well with spinach.

On a recent trip to southern India with the Chief Correspondent, I learnt, in succession, two very surprising facts. The first was that e...

Discoveries

How to peel an orange – the quickest, neatest, and easiest way

The Spray Shop Café at Rust and The Wolf – interview with owner, Mat Hayles

Gervase Markham’s Elizabethan prune stuffed roast chicken