Category: Recipes
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Lychee Bellini
If you really want to spoil your guests when they arrive for a drinks or supper party, I cannot recommend this luscious Lychee Bellini highly enough. Make a cocktail shaker flask of the mix in advance and keep it in the fridge so it’s ready to pour into champagne flutes when people arrive. This recipe…
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Mrs Martin’s carbonara
Spaghetti carbonara is one of those super-quick and easy to make suppers that uses just a few ingredients and tastes sublime. The secret to dishes like this is that the individual ingredients must be of very good quality. Pancetta, good quality spaghetti not supermarket ‘value’ varieties, Parmesan (made of cow’s milk) not cheddar (or any…
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Lamb stew with aubergines and mint
Long before any of the current hipster chefs started promoting the delights of Middle Eastern food, there was Claudia Roden. She was the Cairo-born writer who, many years ago, introduced me and countless others to making wonderfully authentic Turkish, Persian, Lebanese and Moroccan dishes at home. I’ve pimped this one up a little as I…
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