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Entries Tagged as 'Vegetarian'

In Search of…the Perfect Pasta Sauce No 4

August 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Pesto Although I’ve made pesto many times before, I’ve generally haphazardly chucked the ingredients into the food processor and left it to chance. Despite the results usually being good, I thought it was about time I consulted the mama of authentic Italian home cooking, Marcella Hazan and see if she had an angle on this [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · cheese · pasta

Lemon Thyme Cake

August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I’d never made a lemon cake before and we have thyme aplenty on the balcony so how about a lemon thyme cake as featured in the Observer mag a few weeks ago? Oh and the cake master herself was coming to visit Yumblog Junior, perhaps I could show off my culinary skills – she’s tasted [...]

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Tags: Baking · Cake · Vegetarian

Yumblog Celebrates 100 Days of the BIG SOCIETY

August 18th, 2010 · No Comments

If you had any doubts about the half-arsed nature of Dandruff Dave’s BIG SOCIETY, visit the official website.

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Tags: Stuff · Vegetarian

Shakshuka

August 16th, 2010 · No Comments

There are some recipes you can taste just by reading them. This was one such recipe and it read delicious.

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Tags: Brunch · Eggs · Main Course · Vegetarian

Raspberry Flapjack

August 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Bored with biscuits out of off of the cupboard? Want to eat a flapjack that will taste nothing like the dense sugar marathons that you can get in packets labelled ‘Mrs Futtocks’ home-baked country goodness treats’? Have you a spare half hour? I have the answer.

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Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Vegetarian

Chocolate & Honey Meringue

August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

In our new guise as parents we have entered a world where being invited to someone’s house for lunch doesn’t necessarily mean that you will be leaving at midnight having drunk the Rhone valley dry. It’s novel and despite our underlying fatigue, sensible drinking on a weekend still seems inherently wrong. So we had been [...]

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Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Chocolate · Vegetarian

Jme’s Double Chocolate Biscuit

August 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

In the lull between milk extraction and nappy changing I remembered the vast amounts of 85% plain chocolate I had bought and sought to put some of it to work. I was looking for a chocolate biscuit with a melty bit as I’d never made one before and none of my books could help. A [...]

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Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Chocolate · Vegetarian

Minted Chick Pea & Aubergine Salad with Griddled Halloumi

July 30th, 2010 · No Comments

In the spirit of Dandruff Dave’s Big Society we here at Yumblog have served each other redundancy notices so that you, dear reader, can volunteer and write this blog yourself.  So come on Dirk, Tony, Helen, Scooter McKenzie, Mimsy Swallows, Zucchini Breath, Briony Bob et al, step forward and become part of this radical new [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · cheese · salad

Paccheri with Roasted Peppers

July 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Mealtimes have changed here at Yumblog Towers. Top scientists have proved there is now a 99.74% certainty that as soon as we plate up, pull the cork and sit down to enjoy our evening meal, Yumblog Junior will wake from her slumber/get bored with whatever devious distraction we have devised for her, and demand our [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · pasta

Aligot

July 27th, 2010 · No Comments

For anyone who hasn’t eaten this butter and cheese laden French take on mashed potato let me tell you it is more comforting than being hugged by a 6 foot Angora rabbit with a PhD in Applied Cuddling. More comforting than lying in a bath of warm Lenor as a Labrador puppy nuzzles your neck [...]

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Tags: Side Dish · Vegetarian · cheese

HF-W’s ‘Ginger’ Lemonade

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments

The ginger is in inverted commas because this ‘ginger’ lemonade didn’t turn out to be particularly gingery. HF-W specifies you use a piece of ginger the size of a thumb, so I can only assume he is the proud owner of digiti primi as big as cucumbers … great for hitchhiking but about as arbitrary [...]

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Tags: Drink · Vegetarian

Elote (Corn on the cob with mayo, cheese & chilli)

July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

I’ll never forget the charming little threadbare street vendor on the dusty corner of Presa Las Virgenes and Paseo de la Reforma where we would regularly purchase our Elotes at the end of a frantic day’s shoot. We’d take these tasty corn ‘popsicles’ up to the terracotta rooftops of our rambling majestic casa and accompanied [...]

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Tags: Mexican · Side Dish · Snack · Tapas · Vegetarian · cheese

Chilled Pea(+pod) & Mint Soup

July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Readers who feel more comfortable living their lives to a strict set of arbitrary rules will be pleased to discover this recipe adheres to the Four ‘S’ Dictum of Culinary Correctness: 1. Fresh peas are currently available – Seasonal. 2. Our balcony is resplendent with home-grown mint – Sustainable. 3. It’s eaten cold and it’s [...]

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Tags: Snack · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Butterbean Soup?

July 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

The question mark is there because if eaten immediately this is a thick wholesome soup, but if left in the fridge overnight and eaten cold, it miraculously transforms into a tasty bean salad. Two different foodstuffs for the price (and effort) of one. Well bargain, innit.

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Tags: Side Dish · Snack · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · salad

Chickpea Soup

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

The chefs at our flagship eatery ‘Chez Yumblog’ are always on the look out for new and exciting ways to add the humble, nutritious and CHEAP chickpea to the menu. Consequently there was much excitement in the kitchen when Pascal le Plongeur nervously presented this recipe to the Kitchen Porter, who passed it on to [...]

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Tags: Snack · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

In Search of…the Perfect Pasta Sauce No 3

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

Tomato & Cream Sauce The third in this occasional series and the third taken from ‘The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking‘ by Marcella Hazan. The marketing department here at Yumblog (Yumedia Communications) believe this to be the most comprehensive, authentic and definitive cookbook on the subject, so if you like Italian food (and who doesn’t) [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Sauce · Vegetarian · pasta

Cheese S’gone

June 12th, 2010 · No Comments

Victor: A scone and tea at half past three, makes the day a little brighter. So you can keep your cakes and fancy tarts…. Jack and Victor: …and stick them up your shiter.

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Tags: Baking · Vegetarian · cheese

Baked Beans on Toast

May 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Relax, these are obviously middle-class baked beans which involve overnight soaking, an hour and a half in the oven and plenty of extra virgin olive oil.

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Tags: Breakfast · Brunch · Snack · Vegetarian

T-Shirt: Ribbit Rabbit Robot

May 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Got a kid or thinking of getting one? Why not spoil it with this exclusive yumblog ‘Ribbit Rabbit Robot’ T-Shirt and be the envy of the other NCT yummy mummies. Let’s go shopping

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Tags: T Shirts · Vegetarian

Feta & Leek Borek

May 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

This recipe is from the poetically titled and yet to be published ‘Purple Citrus and Sweet Perfume‘ by Silvena Rowe which was featured in the latest OFM. If this and the other published recipes are anything to go by, this particular publication could well be joining the myriad cookbooks gracing the West Wall of the [...]

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Tags: Baking · Side Dish · Snack · Vegetarian · cheese

Dr Yum Gourmet Crispbread

May 21st, 2010 · No Comments

This recipe was the result of a pioneering scientific experiment to recreate something similar to Dr. Karg Crispbreads which, despite their medical honorific and Teutonic wholemeal worthiness are surprisingly tasty and addictive – especially if topped with a wedge of Extra Mature and a dollop of Branston. And so to the experiment…not being experts in this [...]

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Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Bread · Snack · Vegetarian

Arnhem Biscuits

May 17th, 2010 · No Comments

Another Simon Hopkinson recipe, although this time one he borrowed from a cookbook written by Roald Dahl, who in his turn took it from a nice man in Arnhem who made these tasties at his patisserie. Judging by the photo in the (subsequently purchased and truly delightful) Roald Dahl book, these biscuits aren’t quite the [...]

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Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Dessert · Vegetarian

Raymond Blanc’s Tomato Risotto

May 13th, 2010 · No Comments

OK, so you’ve spent most the weekend in the lab distilling your tomato essence, now to put it into action as the base for this rather delicious Tomato Risotto. Paxton the Pig: Scroll down and read the review from James Rose … such a warm, expressive Grandfather.

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Tags: Main Course · Rice · Starter · Vegetarian

Green Pancakes with Lime Butter

May 13th, 2010 · No Comments

Exhausted by the weeks of avoiding the electioneering and depressed at the prospect that this would no doubt be our last weekend under an (admittedly crap) Labour government, we felt the need for something both fortifying and cheery for breakfast. Turning to a small Yotam Ottolenghi recipe book which had recently plopped out of the [...]

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Tags: Side Dish · Snack · Vegetarian

Onion Rolls

April 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Hmm, onions, hmm, bread, hmm, onion bread, hmm, onion bread in individual portions, hmm, lovely lunch.

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Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian

Mushroom, Spring Greens & Lincolnshire Poacher Toasts

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments

It’s finals week and MasterChef has entered the wacky ‘It’s a Knock Out’ stage. The three finalists are being set some fairly arbitrary ‘tough’ tasks such as last night when they were shipped out to Jodhpur in order to cook for some royal toffs in 120 degrees of heat. No doubt tonight they’ll be forced [...]

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Tags: Bread · Brunch · Mushrooms · Vegetarian · cheese

Hot Cross Buns

April 5th, 2010 · No Comments

What to do on Easter Sunday when you’ve already filled the cupboards with tasties but there is a sweet tea-time shaped hole in the kitchen – it’s actually a hatch, but I saw Doctor Who and I know all about holes and cracks in walls and time/space continua and giant eyes. So anyway, hot cross [...]

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Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian

Soupe au Pistou

April 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Here’s the story of a lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely girls. All of them had hair of gold, like their mother, the youngest one in curls.

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · pasta

Parsley Pikelet

March 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Another slightly involved yet very tasty recipe from the mighty Dan ‘Love Bites’ Lepard. The slightly involved element is both understatement and DL raison d’etre and doubtless all his recipes benefit from the multi-tiered preparation, but SOMETIMES you want to make something you can eat while you can still remember starting the recipe. These are [...]

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Tags: Snack · Vegetarian

An Early Valentines Meal

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Ricotta & Parsley Ravioli with Tomato & Cream Sauce The offer of some Valentine themed goodies from our friends at Interflora and a cooking apron from our latest chums at The Last detail, prompted us to cook up something which would make an ideal romantic dinner for two. Besides, it was the day before the [...]

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

Colcannon Soup

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments

The recent bracing wave of cold and snow prompted a frenzy of soup making here at Yumblog Towers. Of the many and tasty varieties produced few warmed the cockles more than this Colcannon, which is rich, smooth, buttery and fundamentally Bubble and Squeak in an easy to ingest liquid form. So good you’ll want to [...]

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

One-Pan Pasta With Garlic and Oil

February 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Recently BluSky Innoventions™ the ‘Pseudo-Science, Holistic Wellness, Quantum Synergy & Bio-Weapons Division’ of Yumblog Holdings Plc was given an obscenely large EU grant to investigate whether it is necessary to cook pasta traditionally in a large volume of boiling water, or whether it could be prepared ‘risotto’ style in the merest covering of liquid. Our [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · pasta · unusual foods

Pan Heggerty

January 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments

If our recent trip to Prague is anything to go by, it would appear the only vegetarian option available in the Czech Republic is deep fried Edam with boiled potatoes. Nothing wrong with that of course – cheese and spuds are two of my favourite food groups especially if the former is heavily grated over [...]

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Tags: Side Dish · Vegetarian · cheese

Parkin

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Residents only. Another HF-W recipe from the Guardian magazine. His ability to tap into the Blogger-D taste-psyche is uncanny.

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Tags: Baking · Dessert · Hallowe'en · Vegetarian

Carrot, Parsnip & Horseradish Gratin

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments

What better way to round off a sunday in which not only have you built the worlds most magnificent shelving ‘solution’ from scratch (and wood) but also found the time to watch a (double) episode from the forth (and darkest) season of BSG than by sitting down with your (lovely) co-blogger and eating this hearty, [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Side Dish · Uncategorized · Vegetarian

Cheese & Beer Bread

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

This is a recipe from the Hairy Bakers/Bikers. It’s meant to contain brown ale but we didn’t have any so instead I used an alcohol-free driving Cobra which was gathering dust in the fridge. Let’s be honest, it was never going to get drunk.

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Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian

Cheesy Lemons with Basil Oil

December 5th, 2009 · No Comments

I found this Lemony Cheese delight in a back issue of the excellent Donna Hay magazine – the eponymous title from food editor, best-selling cookery writer, and from what I can gather, Queen of Australia.

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Tags: Baking · Main Course · Side Dish · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese · unusual foods

Review: Abel & Cole Gorgonzola Dolce

October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

If you follow the link you’ll discover this young Gorgonzola came to us from Sardinia via Acton. Roasted Tomato and Gorgonzola Tarts with Balsamic Vinegar Caramel

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Tags: Baking · Main Course · Reviews · Side Dish · Snack · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese

Cloudy Lemonade

September 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

When God gives you lemons, make lemonade. Two things. Firstly everyone who blogs up a lemonade recipe starts with this proverb and secondly there is no God. There is however a Waitrose, which is where we got our unwaxed fruit. So more accurately, when you go to Waitrose to buy lemons to make lemonade, make [...]

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Tags: Drink · Vegetarian

Gooseberry Sorbet

September 5th, 2009 · No Comments

They had gooseberries at the fruit and veg stall on Saturday morning and so I just had to buy some. When I got home and set about working out what I was going to do with them I realised that gooseberries are generally cooked up and mixed with cream, just in various different ways. I [...]

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Tags: Dessert · Vegetarian