Summer! Not only is the sun shining, but all the wonderful soft fruits are in season and the shops are practically giving them away. I got a huge punnet of apricots for 65p. 65p! Don’t you just love a bargain? When fruit is so cheap, I don’t feel so bad cooking …
Summertime Shabbat lunches = SALAD. When the weather warms up, if the food isn’t cold, then I don’t want to know. It’s too hot out to be leaving the oven on or warming things up. The food needs to be served fridge-cold, or at most, room temperature. So, the annual search for new …
There are so many reasons why I LOVE this strawberry cucumber spinach salad! Mostly, it’s because it tastes like summer in a bowl and is all the things I really want to eat RIGHT NOW, but also, look at it – those colours are just gorgeous! I love how such …
Back during Pesach, readymade frozen oven chips were off the menu. Perhaps you can buy them for Pesach where you live, but here in Cambridge, far from a large kosher shop, there were none to be had. And I was really craving chips. Well, not necessarily chips, but definitely hot, …
Do you like savoury muffins? I think I might prefer them over the more conventional sweet kind. They certainly went down well with Kipper and DH when I made a batch for lunch one Sunday. Cake for lunch! Yum. Even if it is flavoured with sun-dried tomatoes and cheese. We …
You may remember that a couple of months ago Michelle at Utterly Scrummy and I started a new recipe linky to highlight the wonderful versatility of potatoes and sweet potatoes. And our first two months of entries have showed how right we were! There’s been everything from desserts and bakes …
A huge and heartfelt thanks to everyone who took part in the first ever One Potato Two Potato linky for vegetarian potato and sweet potato recipes. The entries all look absolutely delicious and really show off the versatility of potatoes and sweet potatoes, as we have everything from main dishes, …
How many days before you’re fed up with matzah? Three? Four? Maybe you can even make it for five before a sort of desperate craving for some other carb really kicks in. Well, when you reach that point, reach for this recipe, because these Pesach scones are the perfect antidote! …
Sometimes the simplest things are the most effective, and that’s certainly the case with this extremely simple roasted romanesco with za’atar. Four ingredients, minimal effort, mega results. I bought this beautiful fractal vegetable on the market – I’d only stopped to get some oranges but couldn’t resist its gorgeous green …
Do you find that your family will eat / not eat certain things depending on what you call them? DH “hates” kugel and will not eat it. However, when I made this rosti – a potato kugel by any other name – he was quite enthusiastic. Hmmm. I really fancied …
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