teriyaki salmon with mango salsa 128
ricotta: creamy raspberry overnight oats 19
raspberry cheesecake croissants 18
ripple éclair pops 214
S
saffron rose shrikand 194
salads: edamame wild rice salad 89
kiwi salad 88
paneer pasta salad 105
red onion apple salad 178
salmon: black pepper poke salmon bowl 116
Parmesan scones with salmon paste 64
teriyaki salmon with mango salsa 128
sausages: Bengali bangers and hash smash 134
meatloaf roll 66
sausage and egg sliders 58
sausage and mushroom toad-in-the-hole 51
scones: Parmesan, with salmon paste 64
shrikand ice cream 194
smoked trout: watercress quinoa kedgeree 119
s’mores, frying pan 188
sorbet: mango and peach mint 184
soup: chicken soup 135
lentil and orange soup 76
one-pot tortellini 97
spicy scrap soup 77
sweet potato and goat’s cheese soup 111
Thai red pepper soup 130
sour cream: chilli potato skins 92
lava fries 151
nachos with avocado pesto 29
soya mince: ting momo with soya cabbage 171–3
soya mushroom noodles 81
spaghetti hoops: hoop fish bake 138
spice mixes 237
spicy scrap soup 77
spinach: avocado pesto 27–9
crustless spinach quiche 83
harissa bean pizza 22
soya mushroom noodles 81
spotted dick bread with homemade butter 57
squash: hasselback squash with burnt garlic rice 180
stir-fries: honey mustard chow mein 106
stir-fried noodles with aubergines 85
strawberry milkshake funnel cake 200
sweet potatoes: sweet potato and goat’s cheese curry 111
sweet potato and goat’s cheese soup 111
sweet potato and goat’s cheese tart 110–11
sweet risotto 208
sweetcorn: fish finger enchilada 143
grandmama’s curry 158
T
tahini: kiwi salad 88
‘tandoori’ oven chicken with burnt butter rice 178
tandoori spice mix 238
tapenade: olive and rosemary crown 54
tarts see pies & tarts tatty cakes 49
teriyaki salmon with mango salsa 128
Thai green curry paste 238
Thai red pepper soup 130
ting momo with soya cabbage 171–3
tiramisu: grapefruit 207
toad-in-the-hole, sausage and mushroom 51
tomato soup: lava fries 151
tomatoes: chorizo fish stew with garlic bread 168
English muffin bake 62
hoop fish bake 138
marmalade haddock 144
tatty cakes 49
tortillas: egg rolls 60
fish finger enchilada 143
tzatziki quesadillas 73
trifle: breakfast 47
truffles 198
tuna: bao buns with spicy tuna 160
coronation tuna 96
turkey: savoury French toast 99
turkey bacon: tatty cakes 49
tzatziki quesadillas 73
V
vegetables: spicy scrap soup 77
vegetarian rashers: savoury French toast 99
tatty cakes 49
W
waffles: banoffee 56
walnuts: avocado pesto 27–9
watercress: paneer pitta 104
sweet potato and goat’s cheese curry 111
sweet potato and goat’s cheese tart 110–11
watercress quinoa kedgeree 119
white baps 244
Y
yeast extract: English muffin bake 62
meatloaf roll 66
poutine 142
yoghurt: breakfast trifle 47
chia and yoghurt popsicles 47
chicken shawarma 177
mango and peach mint sorbet 184
masala porridge 38
paneer kofta with vermicelli rice 165–6
Parmesan scones with salmon paste 64
pizza paratha 120
saffron rose shrikand 194
‘tandoori’ oven chicken with burnt butter rice 178
tzatziki quesadillas 73
Yorkshire pudding: sausage and mushroom toad-in-the-hole 51
THANKS
Writing recipes is the gift that keeps giving and giving. Just imagine … My kitchen, not very big, is functional for family and home, but was never created or designed for the force that is recipe writing. When I am in that world I am engulfed and intoxicated in the most harmless, euphoric way possible. I dart around. It looks aimless but I do know where I’m going (most of the time). Tapping a few keys on my laptop, carefully placed away from any liquids. I make quick notes on my jotting pad. Check the oven. Click the timer, wipe down the surface, clear away the toaster, pour a glass of water and fill the dishwasher a little more.
I imagine up a new recipe and there in the back of my mind tick tick ticking away is, What shall I make for dinner? Shall I cook dinner? Or shall I just pop a dinner out of the freezer? Or, they could just eat the cake that I’m testing. It’s always my last resort, but great for gathering ‘Who’s your favourite parent’ points.
But once I am out of my writing, crazy-woman phase, once I have cleared up, once everything is put back into its place, once I have wiped away my greasy fingermarks off the handles of the cupboards and disinfected the kitchen to within an inch of its life, the work continues.
So thank you to all of you who have worked so hard to breathe life into this book.
Thank you to the recipe testers, Emma, Rosie and Katy, for going through each recipe one by one and for recognizing the recipes I may have written up at midnight, that nobody could understand, not even me! We got there in the end.
Thank you Chris Terry for your beautiful photography, your really good camera and your bad dad jokes. The only man alive I have seen eat half a cabbage! Good times!
Rob Allison and Rosie Mackean, thank you for all of your help working through these recipes, helping them to look beautiful. It never feels like work with you two around. Which is good, I think. Or is it?
Emma Lahaye, stylist extraordinaire, is there anything you can’t do? Don’t answer that, I already know the answer. Thank you, my friend.
Thanks as ever to Anne, for dotting the ‘i’s and crossing the ‘t’s but also for sliding a plate of fruit next to me without saying a word in the hope that I might stop to eat, and always frantically texting ‘Don’t forget your colourful scarves.’ One of these days I might, just to see you flap.
Special thanks to Dan, who from the get-go has believed in me with so much enthusiasm he makes a puppy look docile. For taking time to talk, email and for just being around. Thank you. Not that it takes much, all I have to say is ‘food’ and Dan will say, ‘Where?’
Thank you to the entire team; Bea, you are totally ace, we powered through and got there in the end, not one lunch break was safe, but we did it. Thank you also to Sarah for her amazing design, Emma for shepherding us through the process, Nick, Sarah K, Emma H, Amy, Gail, Alice and Claire.
To my family: Abdal, Musa, Dawud, Maryam. Time is ours, let’s have it!
THE BEGINNING
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