This has got to be the easiest salad going, no washing, chopping, tossing required. Buy a large iceberg lettuce, take off one layer of outer leaves. Cut into wedges and lay them out on an attractive dish. Make blue cheese dressing and pour it over the wedges. Done.
Make extra dressing. People can’t resist it. They will pour it over everything.
July and August is when you can find the most wonderful ingredient growing wild in your garden, nearby parks, even roadsides, for free! The ingredient I'm talking about is wild fennel - not the big ...
A crumble? In summer? Hear me out. Crumble is great in any season, in any place, weather or location. Crumble is one of the UK's greatest dishes. At Womad, my friend joked that you never see a ...
I've been mucking about with courgettes of late. One way of making them more interesting is to scorch them by blackening the skins under a grill or over a bbq. I charred some courgettes - had some ...
Decorative focaccia recipe This is based on Richard Bertinet's focaccia recipe. I've tried others but I always end up using this one. Oven try For the focaccia: 1 tsp quick ...
Viennese whirls don't come from Austria but from England. However the texture was inspired by the Spritzgebäck biscuit, also in a whirl shape and with a similar dry crumbly almost shortbread ...
I've made several versions of pierogi since visiting Poland in June, one of the best being Felicity Cloake's perfect series. I also asked for advice from my Polish builders and the local Polish shop. ...
This was probably the best thing I ate in Krakow. It ticks all the boxes for me: creamy, sour, potato, soup. I recreated it when I got home, served it at last Saturday's Midsummer supper club and ...
Naples is known for a particular style of pizza, thick around the rim and floppy in the centre. There is even a special method of eating it, where you fold a quarter in half lengthways so that the ...
MsMarmiteLover aka Kerstin Rodgers.
Chef, photographer, author, journalist, blogger. Pioneer of the supperclub movement.
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