Category Archives: salad
Broccoli, almond and ricotta.
Saving money to start my ‘new life’ as a drifter has forced me to be even more frugal than usual, if that were even possible. Combined with the transition to cooking for one means my eating, and also cooking, habits have changed considerably. I no longer plan elaborate braised or roasted meat-heavy meals, switching instead [...]
Mograbiyeh salad, something new.
Mograbiyeh
Also known as Israeli couscous, this large couscous is an interesting starch cooked risotto style or boiled and used in a salad.
Recipe: Mograbiyeh salad
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Broad bean, smoked trout and feta.
Broad beans. Pythagoras, as well as coming up with his famous theorem – the thought of which drags me right back to high school maths, or alternately forces an unbidden Simpsonian recollection ‘That’s a right triangle, you idiot!’, – called them “beans of the dead”. Happily Favism free, the first sight of broad beans at the fruit [...]
Fennel, pickled onion and pear salad
Oh come on, seriously? A salad? Another fennel salad in the deep dark depths of winter. It seems I have a thing for dreaming up raw fennel/fruit combinations during the coldest shortest weeks of the year, though I assure you that this is not crazy at all, uh huh.
Chicken Larp
It often causes problems for me when I tell people that I don’t like Thailand. So I won’t say that. It is the same when I discuss my general disinterest with Thai food, likely tied to the abundance of average thai restaurants in my neighbourhood (as well as my disappointed experiences eating in Thailand, sshhh!). [...]
