carrots, chickpeas, rice

A recipe for Zoe’s cupboard Ingredients 3-4 garlic cloves, crushed 2 teaspoons cumin 2 teaspoons of turmeric 1 teaspoon of … More

Charred Onion Salad

We ate this Turkish-style onion salad with Claudia Roden’s excellent and very simple recipe for rice with red lentils from … More

A recipe made using what I anticipated wouldn’t be quite ideal ingredients, but which were in fact, very ideal. We … More

Menu Chez Panisse Chicken Wings Onions BBQ’d in their skins with crème fraîche and fresh mint BBQ’d vegetable salad An … More

A few months ago Rebecca Tamás asked if I had plans for summer solstice; this conversation came to glorious fruition on Friday … More

I made this as a starter / canapé. Would be enough for 4 people I think (though there were three … More

Rachel Roddy, whom I adore, published this recipe for tomato sauce in her Guardian column a few months ago, to … More

I have made less successful versions of this before; it was rather good this morning. I think it worked better … More

I meant to write about this at the time but Christmas took over and I forgot. Sprouts are still in … More

Zoe is one of my dearest friends and I made her this meal as a collection of what I know … More