Author Archives: headchef
Almost-vegetable paella
This is adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s vegetable paella recipe, using what we had to hand. It was a big hit. Well, I call anything the children eat 4 portions of a hit, especially as William decided picking the vegetables out … Continue reading
Quick and Easy Eggs Benedict
A few weeks ago I had a longing for Eggs Benedict. I tried to make them the proper way, making my own Hollandaise sauce. It was a lot of bother and it didn’t work. I had wanted to recreate the … Continue reading
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Tagged breakfast, eggs, eggs benedict, hollandaise, mock hollandaise
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Simple chicken pie
…well simple if you have marsala and decent chicken stock to hand. Luckily I had the former as we are Nigella sluts and I had the latter as we had roast chicken yesterday and I cannot roast a chicken without … Continue reading
Jaffa Cake Ice Cream
The trick here is to use the cheapest jaffa cakes you can get – generic, basic supermarket ones – and the best vanilla ice cream you can find. We made this with Kelly’s Cornish clotted cream ice cream. Ingredients: Jaffa … Continue reading
Beautiful burritos
Me and the children made these tonight. Fantastic. They took it in turns to help me cook and take photos… (photos to follow!) We made veggie ones and steak ones. Both use the sneaky salsa (below) though this time we … Continue reading
Posted in beans, beef, tomatoes, vegan, vegetarian
Tagged burrito, mexican, tortilla
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Smug and sneaky salsa
I knocked this tasty salsa up mostly from things grown on our allotment (hence the smug bit). Tomatoes A red onion Fat clove of garlic Squeeze of lemon or lime juice pinch of salt Slug of tomato ketchup Slug of … Continue reading
Crispy Aromatic Duck
We had duck for Christmas dinner and still had some leftovers. Crispy Aromatic Duck is my favourite food in the whole wide world but I was missing some vital ingredients: hoisin sauce and Chinese pancakes. Time to improvise… Mock hoisin … Continue reading
Peanut Butter Cups
Nigella’s version of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups which Pippa used to get people to bring back from the States and which she got me hooked on. Recipe stolen outright from the Google cache as the BBC have removed this from … Continue reading
Mulled cider
The best mulled cider I ever had was last Christmas when I stumbled upon the heavenly Somerset Cider Brandy caravan – truly a caravan of love – in Covent Garden in London. I’d love to know how they make it, … Continue reading
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Tagged apple juice, apples, calvados, cider, cider brandy, mulled cider
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Nigella’s Stalking Soup
Watched Nigella’s Christmas last night – the way it’s filmed makes you feel like a pervy stalker peering in through her kitchen window and lurking behind the light fittings… “phoar, come on Nigella, kneed yer dumplings”. Etcetera. Anyway, I managed … Continue reading
Posted in butternut squash, soup, sweet potato
Tagged butternut squash, Nigella, Nigella Lawson, soup, sweet potato
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