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It’s 42°C (108°F) here today 🥵 so this no-cook Trapanese pesto is a practical – and delicious – option. Mafaldine tossed with a quick blitz of cherry tomatoes, golden sultanas, capers, almonds, anchovies, garlic and olive o
Pork steaks and nectarines, with a pan sauce of wholegrain mustard, cider and rosemary. A great, quick weeknight dinner during our short nectarine season (and it's a good one this year) and absolutely required eating after the year's first working
Spiced baby eggplants I like these golf-ball sized eggplants because you can roast them very quickly and they hold their shape. I smoosh them around in cumin, coriander, cinnamon and red chilli flakes and, when they're done, shower them with lemon
A flush of early season Stanley plums appeared at the market, always a nice surprise. I love making this almond cake with them – it makes its own kind of jam along the way.
Friday night feels. I give my meat sauce a kick with some tiny dried Calabrian diavoletti, little devil chillies 🌶💥
Spiced roasted cauliflower with tahini, almonds, parsley and Aleppo pepper. I make this a side dish but I'm also very happy to eat it by itself. It works warm or at room temp. It's not complicated: cauliflower florets tossed with cumin, coriander,
Sticky fried hoisin and garlic Hokkien noodles for lunch. I used to measure out the sauce – it's hoisin, soy, Chinkiang vinegar, Shaoxing wine and sesame oil – every time I made this which, while not exactly a hardship, was a bit of a fi
Cheeky little Thai yellow fish curry to kickstart the weekend.
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