I have just spent a happy afternoon in the kitchen making a free-form pie, teasing the edges of the pastry loosely over the filling like …
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Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked aubergine with white beans and thyme, and banana brioche pudding | Food
There has been a slight change of step in the kitchen. The jars of beans have come down from the top shelf to bake with …
Nigel Slater’s jam, pickle and relish recipes | Autumn food and drink
At this time of year, I put away damsons, gooseberries and blackcurrants in the freezer. A squirrel-store of fruits that are distinctly seasonal and are …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for pork, miso and marrow, and walnut and fig cake | Meat
Should we get rid of the marrow? I am not entirely sure what possessed me to bring it home, perhaps a fit of nostalgia for …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked courgettes with lemongrass, plus mushrooms, courgettes and toasted crumbs | Vegetables
If you grow your own courgettes, you have the opportunity to pick them small – barely thicker than your index finger – and eat them …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for cucumber, avocado and basil tabbouleh, and honey panna cotta | Food
It might be jolly useful to have a summer salad up your sleeve that is both light enough for summer but also substantial – the …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for pork chops with chilli-plum jam, and plum and almond pie | Fruit
There was no sign of dessert. (I’m going back a bit now.) We looked anxiously at one another, wondering if our hosts had forgotten, or …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast red peppers with chickpeas, and lemon and raspberry squares | Food
The scorching red days of high summer mean plates of roasted scarlet peppers and basil, vermilion salads of tomatoes or watermelon and bowl after bowl …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for apricot cake, and summer fruit frozen yoghurt | Food
Summer puddings are a doddle: ripe peaches torn apart and dropped into glasses of chilled muscat; strawberries, halved and tossed with passionfruit juice; melon sprinkled …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for summer soup with prawn cakes, and asparagus and broad bean soup | Food
Lunch was in the garden, with jam-jar flowers on the table and an odd assortment of chairs. A laid-back affair with a thick bean soup, …
Nigel Slater’s goat’s cheese tart and gooseberry pudding recipes | Food
While I wait impatiently for the red and blackcurrants to appear in quantity and at a reasonable price, I make the traditional juice-saturated summer puddings …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for broad bean, spinach and filo pie, and broad bean and tahini cream | Food
The first broad beans in the shops are usually from Italy, their small pods as lumpy as a Christmas stocking, their contents needing only the …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for asparagus and cannellini beans, and salmon with tomato | Fish
I wanted a sauce, quick to make, bright, tart and refreshing, that would work with whatever I brought back from the shops. The only rule …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked sausages with rhubarb chutney, and apricot cheesecake | Food
Of all the things I am unable to grow – cauliflowers, lavender, globe artichokes (the list is longer than I would like) – rhubarb remains …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast chicken, and banana chocolate-chip muffins | Chicken
There was a steady rota of Sunday roasts: lamb, pork, beef and chicken. It was the latter I looked forward to most, because Mum would …