As linked on twitter the other day...

Went through my recipe bookmark collection and tagged my favorites - the ones I make over and over. Maybe you all would to see them too (mostly omnivorous but some veg).

• Eyebrowofdoom's pinboard bookmarks tagged favourite + recipes

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Another variation on meat and lentil + tomato hotpot - this one quite light and fresh-tasting. The reason for starting the lentils off cooking in a separate pan is to give them a headstart so you don't overcook the chicken waiting for them ( Read more... )

This was a winner! A recipe I made up, influenced by this Warm French lentil salad.

A luxurious, wintry cross between braised sausages and a French lentil salad. Sausage drippings make it rich and silky; balsamic and Dijon make it bright and piquant. Lentils without a whiff of virtue about them!

(Vegetarian options: without the sausages, this is ( Read more... )

So this was a winner tonight. Usually I try to be too fancy with chickpea curry and bork it, but this very simple version is great ( Read more... )

Recipe as written:

• 125g / 4 oz butter or margarine
• 2 TB golden syrup 
• 185g / 6 oz sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 315g / 10 oz self raising flour

Three kinds of excellent soup (that makes a meal in itself) I have made this winter:

• Lamb and Bean Soup with Spinach and Feta
  • Amaze-balls - so rich from such a relatively painless method. I just stirred the spinach into the soup at the last minute. Feta is lovely but optional - it's already very flavourful.
• Nigella Lawson Yellow Split Pea and ( Read more... )

• missviolet: FIC: "Highbury Street" Hornblower/Bush NC-17
  
  • WHEW. MR BUSH TELLS A GREAT STORY.
    
    *fans self*
    
    Fabulous marriage of nineteenth-century porn voice (spendings and heavings, oh my) and the romance of the heroic masculine. Basically this is everything I want from slash.
  
  Same setting (and what a wonderful setting) as my A Wild, Unaccustomed ( Read more... )

I think I might have got myself pregnant with the lasagna I just cooked.

Simple eggplant basil lasagne

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1. This bread is great. I am a fan of the Artisan-Bread-in-5 breads in general but this one has been a whole new level of great. Every day I have got up thinking "yay breakfast, I can eat more of that bread". I included pumpkin and sesame seeds in the dough, and more salt - 1.5 US Tb, in line with the quantity that was usual in their previous books - ( Read more... )

Today: Yum Cha with two bottles of wine, followed by a live taping of QI, featuring Stephen Fry, Alan Davies and locals Shaun Micallef, Jennifer Byrne and Dave Hughes. Verdict: Stephen Fry confirmed adorbs. But whole thing was a bit awkward: Stephen and Alan had great rapport but the others were like uncertain strangers marooned together at a ( Read more... )