In an effort to catch up on late posts, I’m combining my recipe for weeks 30, 31 and 32 of the Cookbook Challenge, with themes Baked, French and Potatoes. So I’ve made a Baked French Potatoes recipe from Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees. Peel and finely slice 800g of potatoes. Peel, halve and finely slice 400g of medium onions and 3 cloves of garlic. Pick the...

Week 28 of the Cookbook Challenge, the theme is Breakfast. I recently bought my second Nigella cookbook so picked a breakfast from it – Spanish Omlette. I actually had this for dinner not breakfast – I often have omlettes for dinner when I need to whip up something and don’t have a lot of ingredients. My most common ‘dire straights’ omlette dinner when I am scraping what is left...

Week 20 of the Cookbook Challenge, the theme is Tangy. I decided to finally use the Preserved Lemons I did way back in week 1 in another recipe from the same book, Moorish. The recipe I cooked was Preserved Lemon Risotto. Ingredients 60ml olive oil 1 small onion, quartered 400g Vialone Nano rice (I have no idea what this is, I just used Aborio rice!) 60ml white wine 1 litre of chicken or vegetable stock 1...

I’ve never really been a massive fan of Chinese food, I would always choose Japanese or Thai if I had the option however my friend Adelle recently lent me a book called Why the Chinese don’t count calories, and it totally changed my opinion on Chinese food (and on eating in general!). I realised that the Chinese food I’d known, the typical take away style beef with black bean sauce kind of...