Archive For December 2023
From Sainsbury’s A delicious sauce for the festive period, perfect with turkey or pork. Serves: 10 Preparation time: 15 Minutes Cooking time: 8 Minutes Ingredients 150ml apple juice 225g granulated sugar 250g fresh cranberries ½ teaspoon mixed spice Method Place the apple juice, sugar, cranberries and spice in a saucepan. Stir over…
A travel mug has become part of the city lifestyle. We sit on sweltering buses and trains in the heat of summer and sip water. There are posters telling us to do just that, but a bottle of blood temperature H2O isn’t appealing. Winter is with us for, it seems, a good eight months of…
Cataplana is a traditional Portuguese dish of seafood. It originated on the Algarve coast in the south of the country, but now you’ll find it on menus across Portugal and further afield. Cataplana is the name not only of the food but the vessel in which it is cooked, in the same way as we…
Pear and Almond Tart a simple but classic dessert for a dinner party or even afternoon tea. It makes an impressive centre-piece served whole at the end of a meal or cut into neat squares on a cake stand. Ingredients A roll of shop-bought good-quality shortcrust pastry 175g soft unsalted butter 170g caster sugar 3…
Bold Fashioned is Brockmans perfect Christmas cocktail and a twist on a classic. Ingredients 45ml Brockmans Gin 10ml Zucca Rhubarb Amaro 3 dashes Rhubarb bitters 2 dashes Angostura bitters A strip of orange zest studded with cloves to garnish Method Combine the Brockmans Gin, Rhubarb Amaro and bitters in a mixing glass and stir. Fill a Collins glass with ice and pour over the mixture….
From BBC Food This delicious wild rice salad recipe is perfect for picnics, barbecues or lunch boxes. Ingredients 100g/3½oz broad beans, podded 3-4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1 lemon, juice only 1 garlic clove, crushed pinch chilli flakes 175g/6oz wild rice, cooked according to packet info 1 ripe avocado, peeled, stone removed,…
Most of my UK readers will recognise the name Gregg Wallace and all TV food programme enthusiasts will recognise the face. Greg is the co-presenter of Masterchef and he is the follically challenged bloke with the cheeky grin and love of vegetables. This book has a slightly different perspective than most veggie cookbooks. Greg is…
Eric Lanlard is a familiar face on TV (his Channel 4 series Glamour Puds was a sweet travelogue of patisseries) and he has a voice that reminds us of the reason that we, women at least, still feel that a French accent is charming and perhaps a little romantic. The reality is that you won’t…
From Whole Foods Market Serves 6 Tofu works well in chili, absorbing flavors and mimicking the texture of meat. Add a small jalapeño pepper to spice it up a bit. Serve chili piping hot in bowls, over steamed brown rice, if you like. Ingredients 1 (14-ounce) package extra-firm tofu, drained 2 tablespoons extra…
Dalgona Coffee has been trending for a while. Now Sainsburys offers Dalgona Coffee Martini and its delicious. Ingredients 50ml Courvoisier VSOP 50ml Milk (cow/oak/almond/soy) 2tbsp Caster Sugar 25ml Vanilla/Caramel/Butterscotch Syrup 2tbsp L’OR Classique Instant Coffee 2tbsp Hot Water Ice Method Create the Dalgona mixture through whisking the coffee, sugar and water together until it is…
It will soon be pink blossom time here so delicate pink preparations are in vogue. Pink frosting is an easy option on cakes for a seasonal dessert, but how about something with a less sweet taste, something that can work as either a dessert or a palate-reviver between courses, either Japanese or Western? Its rhubarb!…