A digest of good things: recipes for pragmatic, interesting and elegant (but 'real') home cooked food; 'Supplemental', my roundup of the best recipes in papers and on the web; and more!
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Tomato Pasta #21 | Hispi ‘carbonara’
And other corruptions
This week’s recipe is filed within my Tomato Pasta category of dishes: budget, speed and potentially family friendly midweek meals. Never rocket science. Rarely photogenic. Always useful.
Saffron, ginger and turmeric poached pears
(with spiced crumble ... and a few other ideas for this fruit)
Hello. A couple of days ago, this instagram post from Brogdale Collections caught my eye:
Give a fig
A stilton and fig puff tart (among other things)
I’ve completed enough circuits of the sun, and been interested in food for most of them, to feel pretty au fait with what’s in season and when. Three ingredients always blindside me, though....
Pork and plum meatballs
Followed by ‘assemble it yourself’ toffee apple mille-feuille
Cutting almost straight to the recipes with two adapted from my archive, both having originally been cooked and written for Borough Market’s Market Life magazine: pork and plum...
Supplemental #32 | Recipe roundup August 2026
A selection of recipes published in the papers and online over the last month
Here’s a handful of recipes published through August that caught my eye. A real miscellany this one - which is a good thing.
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