Author: panda
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Beluga Lentils and Poached Egg
I like Beluga lentils for their no pre-soaking but don’t fall apart qualities, and adding poached eggs is never a bad idea.
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Pesto Chickpea Toast
A beefed up version of avocado toast. Simple, fresh ingredients are the way to go here.
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Sugar Cookies
The main point of these simple cookies is to have something to decorate.
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Royal Icing
Making royal icing with meringue powder seems to be more popular, but I never have meringue powder, so I make it the more traditional way – with eggwhites.
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Nut Butter Cookies
Peanut butter cookies are delicious, but you can replace the peanut butter with any nut butter, and then feel superior to the rest of the commoners.
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Mulled Wine
Ingredients Sachet 6-8 Cardamom pods, crushed pinch of Cloves 2 star anise cinnamon stick, crushed lemongrass, crushed and thickly sliced (optional) roughly chopped piece of thumb-sized ginger orange zest wedges of orange 1tbsp sugar (or 125g?) 750ml bottle red wine Create spice sachet. Add sachet and remaining ingredients to wine. Heat gently…
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INGREDIENTS: Caster sugar 150 g 2 stars of anise 4 cardamom pods Cranberries 300 g 2 apples Port 50 g 1 orange Salt Pepper Instructions First things first, make a caramel. Place 150 g of caster sugar into the pan, followed by a couple of star anise. Then, lightly crush 4 cardamom pods and…
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Wild Mushroom Pumpkin Soup
Ingredients Pumpkin Purée: about 1.5kg pumpkin sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 head of garlic, cut in half horizontally handful of rosemary sprigs olive oil, to drizzle Soup: 1½ tbsp olive oil 1 onion, peeled and chopped pinch of freshly grated nutmeg 30g Parmesan, freshly grated 800ml hot ham stock or chicken stock…