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Soup and Pancakes

Mainly out of curiosity and a dash of nostalgia I recently bought a copy of Scandilicious (Saltyard Books May 2011), by Signe Johansen. I was just watching her promotional video on Amazon today and reflected on how different her upbringing was from mine!

Min Danske Mor arrived in England in the fifties from Sweden, where she had lived from the age of thirteen, armed with two Swedish cookbooks and only the vaguest notion of how to feed a family. She struggled with the butchers, who cut the meat up differently, the imperial weights and measures, unfamiliar dishes with names like Yorkshire Pudding and relied on a handful of suppers which she could make. We never had puddings, but ate large quantities of salad as our second course, always with a mustardy French vinaigrette. Continue reading →

River Cottage Chorizo burgers in Dan Lepard buns

Brian has made this recipe from River Cottage Everyday by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall a couple of times and thinks it’s brilliant!

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Soup Construction

Tomato stock – from roasting tomatoes and garden herbs for passata
Chicken stock – from roasting chickens
Leek thinnings – from transplanting leeks
and a couple of big leeks
Sticks of celery – found in fridge
Carrots – ditto
Spinach – leftover from Ottolenghi chickpea and butternut squash dish
A handful of Cooked chickpeas – ditto
End of parmesan, grated

Sweat leeks, carrots and celery in a little good olive oil and butter, add stocks, throw in the chickpeas and spinach and sprinkle with parmesan.

Toast from strange sourdough that started out as being for pizza, (made with some of the tomato stock as above) but owing to major mistaken identity moment turned into this:-