Need something delicious to go alongside your main dish? Easy, tasty side dishes and salads are the answer!
Crispy, savoury and delicious, these super-easy baked potato wedges are delicious dipped in mayo or ketchup, or served anywhere you’d normally have chips. 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…
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,…
These tasty, cheesy savoury scones have a light, flaky texture and a delicious flavour – and are completely kosher for Passover! Enjoy them warm with lashings of butter. How many days before you’re fed up with matzah? Three? Four? Maybe you can even make it to five before a sort…
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…
Creamy avocado, sweetly tangy blood orange, & crisp peppery radish, topped off with tangy spring onions, fresh dill, & a drizzle of olive oil. Delicious! Do you like to eat seasonally? There are all sorts of claims made about the health benefits of eating what’s in season, but the main…
Apples & honey aren’t just for desserts! Try them in these delicious roasted root vegetables – a perfect autumnal side for Rosh Hashanah or any festive meal. Honey and apples! Does anything shout Rosh Hashanah more? I must admit, I’m guilty of adding them to all sorts of dishes, but…
About a week ago I was in town and needed to buy some fruit and veg. I nipped into the nearest grocers, which happened to be one of Cambridge’s fabulous Middle Eastern shops. But when I got to the till, my purchases didn’t quite come to £5, which was the…
Diced fresh, ripe vegetables, lightly dressed with olive oil, lemon juice & herbs – delicious! Serve with falafel, or even as part of an Israeli breakfast! Between school and university, I spent the year in Israel with a group of like-minded people from Habonim-Dror. We were based on a kibbutz,…
An incredibly delicious combination of nuts, lemon, cinnamon and apple, from North Africa via Italy. This charoset will revolutionise your seder! You know that moment at the seder when everyone fights over the last bit of charoset? No? No, I’d never experienced it before last year either, now you mention…
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