Quinoa Tabouleh

    Tabouleh is a Lebanese dish that is sometimes classed as a salad, and goes by a variation of spellings – tabouleh, tabbouleh, tabouli, tabbouli (….and my spellchecker has rejected all these options). This dish is traditionally made with bulgur wheat, but you can use couscous too, and as I have discovered for the […]

Asparagus, Potato and Ricotta Tarts with Polenta Pastry

    Spring-time means fresh asparagus and this vegetarian dish is a great way to display bright green asparagus spears. I think this dish is also a nice change-of-season dish incorporating the starchy potatoes we tend to use a lot of in winter, and showcasing the vibrant green asparagus of spring. We were lucky to […]

Hottest day of summer so far – dinner & wine

For dinner on the hottest day so far this summer, a day that had us wishing for winter to come early, we were in the hot kitchen, where we fried halloumi cheese, boiled pumpkin pieces (which were then sprayed with oil and put into the oven to brown under the grill), and boiled some asparagus spears. We heated […]