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Pork and Gruyere Stuffed Peppers
Flexibility is the key to so much happiness in life. Being able to set aside your expectations so you can engage with what is actually happening transforms experiences. That might seem like a very existential beginning to a recipe post but it typifies this dish for me. Once upon a time it was a recipe […]
Easy Cheesy Greens and Beans
Whenever I have kale in the fridge I feel more like an adult than I do at any other time. Including when I’m doing things like rebalancing the risk profile in my pension. No contest. Having kale in the fridge makes me feel even more responsible than that. It’s a direct result of the stranglehold […]
Creamy Lentil Aubergine Dhal
Eventually this recipe was going to end up here if for no other reason than the book it currently lives in is on its last legs. It is a 1994 copy of Vegetarian Cooking by Louise Pickford. I believe it’s out of print now which always leaves me with a conundrum – to keep the […]
Two Day Chicken Pie
I have a few pet peeves when it comes to recipes and cooking in general but the biggest one has to be recipes that are written in a way that’s misleading about how long it takes to get the thing actually on the table. If I’ve learned anything it’s that where time is called for, […]
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
It seems you aren’t able to come across a recipe for puttanesca on the internet without someone mentioning sex workers in Naples. I’m not a person who believes you can pinpoint much about history in a way that reflects anything more than the knowledge and bias of the person holding the pen so, while it […]
Horseradish Kohlrabi Slaw
Earlier this spring I signed up with OddBox which is a company that is fighting food waste by focusing on saving fruit and veg from farms by buying the things that have been overproduced or that grocery stores think are too weird to put on the shelf. I very much believe in their mission and […]
Chana Masala / Chickpea Curry
When I was living on a tight budget, a period of time that lasted about twelve years, I ate a lot of chana masala. You could get a really good one at Trader Joes that came in a vacuum packed pouch so all I had to do to have a decent dinner was make some […]
Indian Spiced Cauliflower
Sometime in the last couple of months I have decided I like cauliflower. Remembered I like cauliflower is probably a better way of putting it. When given the option of adding cauliflower cheese to a roast dinner when we’re out on a Sunday my answer is usually yes but for the longest time I didn’t […]
Flattened Spicy Chicken Breasts
Every once in awhile you run across a kitchen tip that changes an ingredient you used to loathe into one you really like. In this case the kitchen tip is flattening your chicken breast before you cook it. Chicken breasts are difficult to cook well because in their natural state there is such a difference […]
Mushroom Pilau Rice
I had an epiphany about pilau rice recently that has changed the way I look at aging veg in the fridge. It came after making Chetna Makan’s incredible one pot roast chicken and pulao rice. I had made pilau in the past and it was always so much more satisfying than plain rice but I […]