Recipes

I am still finding my way in the world of cooking – this section will be added to very gradually! Recipes which are not mine are credited accordingly.

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Breakfast
Bejewelled buttermilk pancakes
Bircher muesli with mango, mint and macadamias
French chocolate granola
Honey and oil bread
So easy it’s hardly a recipe

Cookies & cakes
70 percent chocolate ginger cookies
Al Di La’s Torta di Pere
Ina Garten’s Beatty’s chocolate cake
Chocolate and cinnamon crinkle cookies
Chocolate fudge cake
Gâteau au citron
Nigel Slater’s pudding cake of honey, cinnamon, and plums
Quick chocolate cake
Winter warmer cookies

Other sweet things
Chai-spiced baked chocolate puddings
Chocolate and walnut (best ever) brownie
Dark chocolate lamingtons
Ice cream for one
Linzer Torte
Mango pudding
Meringues
Mini apple crumble
Poached pears with quick chocolate sauce
Prune and apricot clafoutis
Sweet and spicy crumble
Tiramisu
Tong sui

Soups, salads, entrées & light meals
Easy chicken drumsticks
Egg and potato salad with aioli
Magic salad
Matt’s ‘death medicine’ (green soup)
Oeuf cocotte#2
Ottolenghi’s aubergine with buttermilk sauce and pomegranate
Prawn & celery soup
Ratatouille in the oven
Ratatouille – my favourite way to cook it
Sandwich of your dreams
Simple fancy eggs
Spanish omelette
Spiced eggs with capsicum, dill & parmesan on toast
Spicy turnaround couscous
Tartine poireaux-oeufs brouillés, or French-style open-faced sandwich with leeks and soft-scrambled eggs

Mains
Affirmation pasta
Bacon, tomato & mandarino spirals
Baked fish with tomato, parsley and celery
Baked market fish with lemon, salt & dill
Fettucine with scallopini, snap peas, macadamia and cherry tomatoes
Fuss-free fettuccine
Instant gratification pizza
Lamb, lemon and anchovy pasta
Lamia’s chicken
Mushroom risotto
One-step-from-heaven spaghetti
Pappardelle with rapid ragù and caramelised onions
Penne con la zucca
Prawns with orzo, tomato, spinach and feta
Roast chicken
Spirals with fennel and anchovies
Spring in a bowl
Summery tomato pasta
Warm orzo salad with roasted vegetables

Sides
Easy flour tortillas
Oven-roasted tomatoes

Dips & sauces
Spiced yoghurt

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