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Entries Tagged as 'Vegetarian'

Sweetcorn fritters

January 27th, 2012 · No Comments

A while back we bought a bumper pack of frozen sweetcorn for Yumblog Junior hoping this might make a healthy addition to her somewhat restricted and monotonous diet. As is invariably the case she gave our offering a glance of contempt, shook her head and returned to her preferred menu of bananas, Marmite and toothpaste. [...]

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Tags: Brunch · Eggs · Main Course · Snack · Sweetcorn · Vegetarian

Colcannon soup (deconstructed)

January 26th, 2012 · No Comments

“You know me and my weakness for a juicy pear” – Gregg Wallace, MasterChef, 2012. “I just love the big flavours of Dick” – Gregg Wallace, Celebrity MasterChef, 2010. Looks like Gregg butters his toast on both sides. Our constructed Colcannon soup can be found here.

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Tags: Soup · Vegetarian

Seed & grain white bread

January 23rd, 2012 · 3 Comments

Well I never, I’ve just discovered our local Morrisons now sells packets of fresh yeast for breadmaking… and at the very reasonable price of 50p for 126g. This was unexpected because a) as far as I know you can’t even get it at Waitrose, and b) Morrisons is very much at the (Sp)Asda end of [...]

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Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian

Tartiflette* with Brie

January 9th, 2012 · No Comments

Although the fridge has now all but emptied of Christmas goodies the cheese compartment is still heavy with half-eaten lumps, wheels and wedges of every variety of soft, hard, blue, holey, mature and goat. It has become clear that the occasional lunchtime snack is never going to make much headway into this cheesey surplus and [...]

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Tags: Baking · cheese · Side Dish · Vegetarian

Grogg

December 17th, 2011 · No Comments

Despite being grammatically only one letter away from Glogg, this is actually a toddy far removed from its near namesake. The alcoholic element can be supplied by either Rum, Brandy or as in this case Kirsch – we had some left over from our post-modern ironic fondu phase. Less of an infused libation and more [...]

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Tags: Christmas · Drink · Vegetarian

Wintery Pimms

December 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment

We had some Pimms in the house, we wanted to make a new hot boozy drink, a recipe was found that indicated a potentially minimal expenditure on further ingredients in order to fulfill our warm Pimms dream. After no debate apple juice was bought.

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Tags: Christmas · Drink · Vegetarian

Glogg

December 12th, 2011 · No Comments

The plan is to try out as many festive toddies as we can in the run up to Christmas so that you, dear reader(s), will have a selection of Yuletide tipples to choose from come the big day. With only 12 drinking days to Christmas we realise we have set ourselves a daunting task, but [...]

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Tags: Christmas · Drink · Vegetarian

Banana & chocolate bread

December 6th, 2011 · No Comments

At the last count Yumblog Junior had an impressive vocabulary of 38½ distinct words*. These range from the traditional and vital Mummy, Daddy, Dog, Cat through Cheese, Spoon, Cock-a-doodle-doo to more personal choices such as Shoes, Crumpet and Cheers (accompanied by the touching of the parental beer glasses). One of her first and still most [...]

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Tags: Baking · Banana · Bread · Vegetarian

Mushy Peas

December 5th, 2011 · No Comments

Restaurants in the Dordogne serve them under the name of ‘Pois Détrempés’; in Italy they are commonly known as ‘Piselli Pastosi’ and are a popular filling for ravioli; the Germans claim ‘Deutsche Matschig Erbsen’ to be their national dish, and of course the Spanish love nothing more than a tapas of ‘Guisantes Fofos’. Here in [...]

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Tags: Side Dish · Vegetarian · Yorkshire

Mushroom soup

November 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Our recent enthusiasm for cooking with mushrooms is appropriate as at the moment we seem to be cultivating several interesting varieties of our own on the increasingly damp internal walls here at Yumblog Cottage. The damp man* who came round to investigate told us we can eradicate 70% of the problem by simply keeping the [...]

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Tags: Mushrooms · Snack · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Smothered cabbage

October 26th, 2011 · No Comments

In some parts of the world it is still illegal to smother a cabbage, but thankfully not in Italy where this recipe originates.

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Tags: Side Dish · Vegetarian

Foraging (an introduction)

October 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments

A few Saturdays back one of us (me) joined the Incredible Edible Foraging Walk which took place in and around the IE Market Garden Training Centre just down the road at Walsden. Contrary to naive expectations I didn’t skip home through the woods afterwards with a trug filled with wild garlic and exotic fungi, however [...]

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Tags: foraged · Incredible Edible · unusual foods · Vegetarian

Cream of celery soup

October 21st, 2011 · No Comments

Now I know I don’t need to remind you dear reader, that when Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calender in 1582 he decreed that the third Sunday of October would herald the beginning of Soup Season (Source: Wikipedia). Obviously in these most modern of times we are much more relaxed about such things and [...]

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Tags: Snack · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

In Search of…the Perfect Pasta Sauce No 5

October 14th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Aubergine Sauce (with tomato and chilli) Well this is as close to perfection as you are likely to get in this increasingly imperfect world. As with all the other sauces in this occasional series, I turned to the ever reliable Marcella Hazan for inspiration and guidance, and once again she delivered the goods with this [...]

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Tags: Main Course · pasta · Sauce · Vegetarian

Andalucian gazpacho

August 9th, 2011 · No Comments

Over the years we’ve covered the entire spectrum of gazpachos – from the lush red of the classic tomato, to the cool white of almond and grape via the verdant green of avocado. I suppose we could start searching for other colours, possibly blue, but that would be getting dangerously close to Bridget Jones territory [...]

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Tapas · Vegetarian

Rosemary Potato Pizza

August 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Trawling through the dusty archives in the Fanny Craddock Wing of the Great Library here at Yumblog Towers, it seems that in all our years as honoured custodians of this esteemed and venerable blog, we have never written up a recipe for pizza. A possible explanation for this (should your legal department require one) is [...]

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Tags: Bread · Main Course · Pizza · Vegetarian

Roasted elephant garlic

August 4th, 2011 · No Comments

We returned from a weekend visit to Grannie Gwydwr with among other things this saucy and buxom bulb of elephant garlic. …and by way of a diversion from riotous ‘hooded thuggery‘ and the long overdue collapse of capitalism, here are two diverting links: Diverting link #1, diverting link #2 Cover shot from this month’s ‘Allium [...]

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Tags: Snack · Vegetarian

Cherry & apricot crisp

August 1st, 2011 · No Comments

As well as a handsome moustache and a penchant for white trousers, The Frenchman also has a strong liking for desserts. We made him this HF-W dish. He had three helpings.

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Tags: Baking · Dessert · Vegetarian

Piedmontese peppers

August 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments

…and talking of Simon Hopkinson, this week’s episode of TGC featured two vegetable dishes which looked so simple and tasty we knew we had to try them out here at Yumblog Towers. The first was this roasted pepper and tomato dish which if you cook nothing else between now and the world’s end (August 2012), [...]

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Tags: Brunch · Starter · Tapas · Vegetarian

Grilled aubergines with olive oil, garlic, parsley and feta

July 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments

…and so to the second Simon Hopkinson dish.

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Tags: cheese · Side Dish · Tapas · Vegetarian

Baked cheese cake

July 6th, 2011 · No Comments

What do you do when you’ve been engauntleted by a friend regarding the potentiality of high quality picnic foodage? Why you go to your most recent recipe font and seek out something large and sublime that will sate the masses. And it has all the food groups too, cream cheese, cream, sugar, eggs.

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Tags: Baking · Cake · cheese · Dessert · Vegetarian

Puy lentil & roasted butternut squash ‘soup’ with harissa

June 15th, 2011 · No Comments

Again, inverted commas as the viscosity gradient of this dish leans very much more towards the stewy than the soupy. However, let’s not get bogged down with culinary thixotropics, pull up a chair, grab yourself a spoon and tuck in.

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Vanilla risotto with poached rhubarb

May 26th, 2011 · No Comments

For lovers of puds and alliteration this is a tasty toothsome treat…

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Tags: Dessert · Rice · Vegetarian

Griddled courgette & mint salad

May 26th, 2011 · No Comments

…a simple refreshing salad.

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Tags: salad · Side Dish · Vegetarian

Sage and rosemary potato wedges

May 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments

The beauty of this recipe is you can kid yourself you are eating a healthy authentic Mediterranean potato dish when in fact you are just scoffing fancy chips.

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Tags: Side Dish · Snack · Vegetarian

Tomato and cumin soup (avec egg)

May 24th, 2011 · No Comments

With the weekend Guardian scattered over floor and table, Adam and Joe on 6Music and Yumblog Junior playing happily and noisily within the Tachyon beam containment field, few meals are more eagerly anticipated here at at Yumblog Towers than Saturday brunch… and few dishes have endorsed that anticipation with more spicy gusto than this delicious [...]

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Tags: Brunch · Eggs · Soup · Vegetarian

Yoghurt & pearl barley soup with spiced chickpea koftas

May 18th, 2011 · No Comments

If you’re in the market for something weird yet tasty then give this recipe a go… I guarantee* you’ve never eaten anything like this before. A word of warning though, pearl barley has a bent for clogging up dishwashers so best go manual on this one. * UK and Ireland only. Terms and conditions apply. [...]

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Tags: Pearl Barley · Soup · unusual foods · Vegetarian

Soft cheese, puy lentil and parsley salad

April 19th, 2011 · No Comments

A few weekends back the Yumblog family boarding a cramped Virgin train and sped uncomfortably northwards to West Yorkshire in what could be referred to as Phase Two of their cunning plan for a bright and exciting new future. A few days later they returned to Yumblog Towers refreshed and excited and carrying a modest [...]

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Tags: cheese · Main Course · salad · Snack · Vegetarian

Honey Roasted Rhubarb

April 4th, 2011 · 3 Comments

‘Chase me, girls, for I am full of rhubarb!’

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Tags: Dessert · Vegetarian

Honeyed White Loaf

March 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Watching Michel Roux eulogising the virtues of hand-crafted bread on the ‘Great British Food Revival‘ reminded me that shamefully I hadn’t baked a loaf for several weeks. Thus suitably laden with middle-class guilt I put on a pinny, grabbed a jar of Mathos Organic Polygonum Honey (dark, strong and liquorice-ee) and made this simple white [...]

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Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian

(Beetroot) Risotto Rosso

February 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments

The starting point of this recipe was a forgotten and up until now unused bargain basement cookbook called something along the lines of ‘A Zillion and One Easy To Make Risottos’. I should have been forewarned, for even after the most cursory of scans it was obvious the editor had struggled to fulfil the ambitious [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Rice · Starter · Vegetarian

Stilton (& Rocket) Tart

January 17th, 2011 · No Comments

Despite heroic efforts on our part, post-Christmas still found us with a substantial wedge of a 3 tonne wheel of Stilton left uneaten. This tart was one of several tasty ways we found to remedy the problem.

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Tags: Baking · cheese · Eggs · Main Course · Snack · Starter · Vegetarian

Œufs brouillés au fromage de chèvre

January 17th, 2011 · No Comments

… or scrambled eggs with goat’s cheese. If you want a different more goaty way to scramble your eggs, this is the recipe for you.

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Tags: Breakfast · Brunch · Eggs · Snack · Vegetarian

Oatmeal & Molasses Loaf (Revisited)

January 17th, 2011 · No Comments

Fellow bloggers… is it a crime to recycle an old post?

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Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian

Pixel Dog T-Shirt

January 14th, 2011 · No Comments

The next best thing to having a real dog. Please exit through the giftshop

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Tags: Stuff · T Shirts · Vegetarian

Porcini Risotto

January 12th, 2011 · No Comments

Porcini are very much in vogue here at Yumblog Towers. Along with late Sunday roasts. And baked potatoes with cheese and beans and coleslaw. And spending Saturday morning watching 5Live on the red button. And Sophie the teething giraffe. And Friday night beer and pizza after swimming. Lots of things in fact. But not duck [...]

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Tags: cheese · Main Course · Mushrooms · Rice · Starter · Vegetarian

(The Perfect) White Bread (Toaster)

January 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments

It’s ok, put the dogs back in their kennels, tether the steed, the search is over, we’ve found it. The perfect white bread f’toasting is here and even better hardly any kneading is needed. Brilliant.

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Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian

3 Cheese Risotto

December 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments

…which makes this three times better than a mono cheesed risotto.

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Tags: cheese · Main Course · Rice · Starter · Vegetarian

Cheese & Rosemary Biscuits

October 24th, 2010 · 7 Comments

It was a on a particularly high-achieving day of culinary endeavour that the cheese and rosemary biscuits came into being. The original idea had been to make cheese scones, but these were rejected for being too little cheese per bite. Then came the rosemary and black pepper and suddenly they were biscuits. They can of [...]

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Tags: Baking · Biscuits · cheese · Vegetarian

Fennel & Green Bean Soup with Ricotta Toasts

September 29th, 2010 · No Comments

When it comes to fennel, my co-blogger has a cool detachment only slightly less chilly than her contempt for cauliflower. This recipe was an attempt to warm her to the idea of eating this hardy, perennial, anethole-rich, umbelliferous herb. Success was moderate. A fennel bulb gives a moving performance in  Strindberg’s ‘The Ghost Sonata’

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Vegetarian