This is a Nigella recipe which I have been meaning to make for a while, if only to see if it’s as good as Nigella says it is – and it is indeed delicious. I made this yesterday as I wanted something to take to a friend who is laid up with her leg in…
Month: February 2019
Pickled cucumbers
I discovered this Jamie Oliver recipe about a month ago and since then I’ve been making pickled cucumbers every week. I’ve even switched my weekly shop to Tesco as they stock the small cucumbers. You can use standard sized cucumbers but the small ones look great and are sweeter. The real pleasure of making these…
Chicken and sweetcorn soup
Just under a year ago I blogged about my recipe for chicken soup, made with home made stock from a roasted anchovy spatchcock chicken. This soup, which I made yesterday, is very similar – using my own chicken stock from a roast, but using sweetcorn kernels scraped off four little corn cobs (bought over a…
Cheap, fresh and easy 