Monthly Archives: January 2012
Chickpea & turnip top soup
Whenever – and it’s a regular event I’m afraid – I look up at the clock, expecting it to be 11.30am and finding it’s 1.30pm already, I whip up some very simple soup, often involving jars of ready-cooked pulses. This … Continue reading
Apple & quince crumble
Even at this time of the year, I have quinces sitting about. Having eaten and/or discarded any with imperfections, I find that months later, despite having been left, forgotten, in a bowl in the corner of my rather warm kitchen, … Continue reading
Celeriac & cauliflower soup
I’m no fan of celery but I do like the sweetish, earthy flavour of its relation celeriac, a knobbly-looking root which is in fact a hypocotyl – the below-ground stem of a leaf – and not a root at all, … Continue reading
11 January 2012
We’ve been in Bologna. I like Bologna. It’s the closest Italy comes to Oxbridge. But it has that edge, a stylishness and sophistication that places it firmly in Italy’s monied north – however hard the crisis is biting and however … Continue reading
Bean soup with kale & mushrooms
Here’s another great winter soup. It requires a little forethought (ie remembering to soak the beans) but once you have that ingredient ready, it takes very little time at all. Of course, you could cheat and use beans out of … Continue reading
