Another recipe with lots of seeds, nuts and dried fruit but the difference here is the tahini, which adds a great savoury flavour to the mix. I’d always just used orange zest in this until one day I happened to have a pile of mandarins and I dried the skins in a very old home-style dehydrator that I bring out from the back of a cupboard occasionally. I ground the dried skins to a powder and added some to the muesli. The result was fabulous, but it’s definitely optional.
Author: Chef M
This Alsatian brioche is traditionally eaten for family Sunday breakfasts. If you do not own a Kugelhopf mould, you could use a large cake tin or 2 small ones, and sprinkle the flaked almonds at the bottom. This will not affect its amazing taste.
Warm cucumbers are surprisingly delicious. When quickly sautéed, they take on a more vegetal quality, while retaining their telltale crispiness. Served alongside a tangy crème fraîche, spicy horseradish, and crunchy toasted hemp seed sauce over rich salmon makes for a very elegant, dinner-partyworthy meal.
Yes, I know. This looks more like a quesadilla than your typical focaccia. But this is Ligurian-style focaccia, best described as a crispy, paper-thin flatbread stuffed with creamy, melted cheese. It’s irresistible. Traditionally, this focaccia is made with Stracchino, a soft, delicate cow’s milk cheese. Stracchino can be challenging to find, so as an alternative, I’ve made it with mascarpone and fontina for an updated twist. About the Dough: For this particular recipe, it’s all about how you stretch the dough. You’ll do this pizzeria-style minus the air toss, letting the natural weight of the dough do the work for…
When Caspian, King of Narnia, in the company of Reepicheep the mouse knight, Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace, decides to go in search of the lost Lords of Narnia, he sets sail on a ship called the Dawn Treader. The crew experiences many adventures at sea and on land, and have to live off the food on board and what they can find around them. This soup was a particular favorite of Eustace. At least, until he turned into a dragon! This recipe can easily be made on board a ship, using produce from the sea and supplies from the hold.
These are a great addition to a cooked breakfast and, if fried in sunflower oil rather than pork fat, they make delicious vegetarian ‘fish cakes’.
This simple, aromatic, light, bright soup is one of the best ways of stretching a chicken out to make another dish and it is easily adapted to take in whatever vegetables you have to hand broccoli instead of peas, a few shiitake mushrooms, shredded greens, etc.
The beloved pairing of autumn blackberries and juicy apples makes the homeliest of muffins. Blackberries, those cherished gifts of the hedgerow, can be picked in season and frozen to use later in the year. For this recipe, you can use the blackberries straight from the freezer, but you will need to bake the muffins for 3–4 minutes longer.