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. I’ve changed it of...
Mains
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 with instant pak choi...
Stuffed peppers with smokey mince and slathered with minty yoghurt
The Saucy Dressings’ chief correspondent invented this dish, and I have tweaked it a bit, replacing her yoghurt with mascarpone, and her urban, London, mint sau...
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 something sweet – often ora...
A dish of less pork and more aubergine – another category on the menu
Meat is fast becoming a dirty word in the food industry, but all kinds of research (see We Are What We Eat) suggests that giving it up altogether won’t help the...
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 chihuahua
I am...
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 bottom of this post, b...
Haddock, creamed on toast
“You said something about finnan haddock, but you wouldn’t like it in the bedroom. It leaves a smell. I’m giving it to you for your supper, creamed on toast.” ...
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, magazines and cookbooks; I ...
Exotic and Easy Za’atar Chicken
Za’atar is a heady mix of spices: sumac and sesame seeds; cumin and coriander; the bright taste of anise from fennel seeds; and thyme. The mix does the work for...