A Cornucopia of Ancient Grains, Peppers, Sweet Berries, and Everything Else
This is an enormously useful, wholesome salad. Why enormously useful? Because it’s the sort of salad which can successfully accommodate a serious fridge clear o...
Salads
Courgette carpaccio with gilded cheese and pinenuts and an emerald green dressing
It’s the basil which makes this raw courgette salad so special – and it’s the quantity that’s important. I only discovered this thanks to the Chief Taster’s pas...
Salade Niçoise – the salad which goes full circle
“We had a secluded corner table, as befitted my guest and his exalted position as a ‘guy who knows Trump’. He looked the part too: big, brash, knows his way aro...
An Italian Zucchini Salad With Mozzarella and Pine Nuts
I call this salad Italian because of the mozzarella of course. But in fact mint isn’t used so much in Italy, where each region has its own penchant, but basil a...
A savoury salad of charred apricots, prosciutto, and buffalo mozzarella
Savoury fruit salads are becoming more popular these, but the problem with them is always the same – how to contain the sweetness of the fruit. In the case of t...
The Perfect Lebanese Tabbouleh
“…only burghul wheat, no other cereal. Tabbouleh and couscous do not go together – they are complete strangers.”
-Kamal Mouzawak
At a big party a de...
Lamb fillets with a watercress and caper salad
Lamb is at its best at this time of year. This recipe goes really well with smoky eastern European potatoes, and, as suggested by Diana Henry, with Sicilian zho...
Hot Day Tomato and Watermelon Salad from Bamberg
Recently I visited Bamberg in Germany – this is an ancient town was made a family inheritance in 1007 by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II with a cathedral being ...
Is Chinese Leaf a cabbage or a lettuce, and what should you do with it?
"'I want plant Chinese cabbages, some water lily, some plum tree, and maybe some bamboos, and maybe some Chinese chives as well...'I immediately image pictu...
Soft green salad with dried cranberries, pistachios and spring onions
So this is a soft, floaty sort of light, summer salad, saved from blandness by; the nuts which give it crunch; the dried fruit which gives a bit of sweetness; t...