If you’ve got any leftover roast chicken, this dish makes a great leftover lunch. Using stock-standard ingredients like frozen peas, onion, garlic and carrot, this is a recipe for lazy days when you don’t want to leave the house. If you’re not a dill fan, swap for parsley or chervil. You can also swap frozen peas for broad beans....
The warm, spiced notes of star anise make an aromatic broth for this mushroom soup. Add green veg straight from the freezer, anything goes! Use any variety of mushroom you can find - I particularly love oyster and shiitake. I use 100% buckwheat soba noodles which are now stocked in most shops....
I love soup! It doesn’t matter what’s in it, there’s nothing more comforting than a big bowl of warm, hearty soup. Bulked up with chickpeas and flavoured with thyme and parsley, this herbaceous soup is great for between the seasons. If you can’t find pomegranate, you can easily skip this ingredient. For added sweetness, you can also roughly chop some...
Truffles only sound fancy—to make at home, they're actually ridiculously simple! With just 5 ingredients, these chocolate-y balls of goodness can be thrown together in a matter of moments, it just takes serious patience (and self control) not to devour the mixture before it sets in the fridge!...
I had a big bag of sad-looking courgettes sitting in my fridge and I couldn’t bear to throw them away - instead, I whipped up this Italian-inspired fried courgette recipe. Tossing the still-warm courgette in the raw garlic dressing slightly cooks the garlic (so it’s not bitter). ...
This Sumac & Pomegranate Cup was a recipe I made for The Bake for Syria fundraiser on Columbia Road and went down such a treat with everyone! Refreshingly simple, it's the perfect Summer sipper without the extra sugar. I served it with a dash of Seedlip (non alcoholic spirit) but it works great on it's own or even with a...
There's always a pot of something lovely on the go when you come over to my house, and that doesn't change with Summer. This cooling, zesty take on my Winter staple of lemon & turmeric, is a real favourite, especially served in the garden on a sunny day. ...
This refreshing summer tipple isn’t exactly authentic - but gosh it’s good. Using green or lemon verbena tea as the base, it adds another dimension of flavour that works a treat. I like to serve this in jugs when I’m entertaining outdoors in summer. Top with plenty of cucumber, mint and a dash of raw honey. ...
An on-the-fly weeknight meal or a lazy weekend breakfast or brunch, this extra-garlicky fry up is made, cooked and served in the same pan, which keeps the cooking simple (and minimises washing up). Adding handfuls of spinach and mushrooms to your breakfast is a great way to sneak greens into your daily meals....