My fridge hasn’t been to inspirational recently. But after a traumatic 5km charity run I thought I’d treat myself with a nice supper lastnight. So when I got back from work today the standard of fridge leftovers was a lot better than usual. Some asparagus, sugar snaps and soft goat’s cheese. Delicious. I ferreted out [...]
Archive for the ‘Light Lunch’ Category
Summer pasta
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, tagged asparagus, broad beans, goats cheese, orecchiette, pasta, pink pepper, sugar snaps, summer on May 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pissaladière
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged anchovies, anchovy, black olive, pissaladiere, puff pastry, sous chef, South France, warm weather food on May 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
One of the great things about my new job is the lunches. A wonderfully civilised part of the day. Cooking, sitting round a table and talking. No more silent desk sandwiches or microwaved soup. But freshly baked olive bread, Thai burgers and meat ragus. The future of working life. Today I cooked a Spanish omelette. [...]
Guanciale Carbonara
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, tagged carbonara, guanciale, ingredients, inspiration, Italian, new job, parmesan, parsley, purist, sous chef, souschef.co.uk, website on May 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I’m mortified that there has been such a long gap since I last posted. Bad blogging. It seems like such a long time ago that I was cooking shin of beef. Partly because it was, but also because I’ve been cooking so many other things in between….because I’ve got a new job – which has [...]
Tomato, chicken, mozzarella and garlic salad
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged chicken, frae, garlic, garlic tomatoes, salad, snog, vanilla on March 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
London has turned tropical overnight. It was only last week that I was filling my hot water bottle and double-layering socks—and then, all of a sudden, Bethnal Green is hotter than Bermuda. With no intention of wasting any valuable balcony-basking time in a Tescos queue, I did a crazed Supermarket Sweep-style dash after work lastnight. [...]
Holi Schmoly! Not a Bombay Omelette…
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged Bombay, Bombay Omelette, cheap, chilli, colourful, coriander, cumin, holi, indian festival, mid-week meal, Mumbai on March 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
For those of you who thought that a Bombay Omelette was a little something that appears on the pavement outside Abacus on Friday morning, think again. Because, to honour the wonderfully paint-splattery Indian celebration that is Holi, I’ve come up with a spicy omelette supper. Yum. This is a perfect mid-night meal, because it takes [...]
Marathon Meatloaf
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged Alfie Fielden, athelete, Bath Half Marathon, butter beans, charity, charity fundraising, coriander, cumin, loaf tin, marathon food, marathon meatloaf, meatloaf, minced beef, onions, SMA, spinal muscular atrophy, The Jennifer Trust, tomato sauce, training on March 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Tom and his three housemates are running the Bath Half Marathon along with 21 other friends who are all coming together to raise money for the lovely Alfie Fielden (seated, below). The two-year-old son of my friend Rowe is an extraordinarily handsome, very cuddly and clever little boy who lives in Bath with his twin [...]
Budget food
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged bacon, budget, cheap, creme fraiche, edamame, edamame pasta, M&S salad, Marks & spencer salad, pasta, saving money, two salads for £3 on February 28, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Budget eating is big. There are entire blogs devoted to feeding yourself on a shoestring. And today I’m going to join in, because I came up with quite a good wheeze involving the Marks & Spencer ‘two-salads-for-£3 deal’. It’s quite simple. One for lunch and the other one as the base of your evening meal. [...]
Food For Ill People
Posted in Light Lunch, Puddings, Sweet Snacks, tagged Austro Hungarian, burst appendix, butter, cinnamon, Czech, family recipe, gries schmarn, ill, ill-person's-food, milk, recovery, semolina, sick, sultana on February 23, 2012 | 10 Comments »
I think my appendix could be about to burst. Or something chronic. I’ve tried to go to the doctors, but I can’t get an appointment until next Wednesday evening. I might be dead by then. The only small comfort is that I could be hailed as a martyr for the NHS. Probably not though. When [...]
Savoury Muffins
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks on January 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The British language is a confusing thing. I feel sorry for anyone who tries to learn it in a logical way. I’ve been trying for 25 years and still can’t make sense of most of it. It’s hard when a guinea pig is neither from Guinea not is it a pig. Quicksand results in a [...]