Salads

Molho fervido – Cooked olive oil dressing (fish & potato salad)

January 23, 2013
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The idea of molho fervido, also called azeite fervido is to add flavour to starchy plain boiled potatoes and a plain cooked fish usually poached, and often the choice of fish will be bacalhau (salt cod) but also popular is pescada (hake).  I don’t know about you but sometimes when cold weather demands something warm and […]

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Chipotle sauce – spicy smoky versatile dressing for meat, vegetables, salads

October 20, 2012
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I gave this sauce to Nicola mixed in the black-eye bean salad last weekend, and to Monica  to add it to her fish dish this weekend and both of them raved about this sauce.  Monica who loves everything chili would happily add it to all her food.  A very versatile sauce can be used to […]

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Seaweed, samphire, carrot, apple, sesame salad

September 21, 2012
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The worst seaweed salad I remember eating was on my second visit to New York five years ago, it was a selection of seaweed like this only undressed.   I don’t care how healthy and good it’s suppose to be for me you can not make me eat wet undressed seaweed.  I have eaten seaweed […]

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Octopus Salad – Salada de Polvo

August 14, 2012
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Now that you have done the hard part of cooking the octopus as shown in my post here, here’s the simple salad. It can be eaten as part of other dishes in a tapas style meal.  It’s often eaten with new potatoes. Once it’s dressed like this it can be kept in the fridge and […]

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Aduki / Azuki Bean Salad

January 23, 2012
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I made this salad for my lunch today.  I was reminded yesterday reading Carl’s post on his vegetarian haggis how good aduki beans are, they’re the puy lentil of the bean world for me.  They’re flavoursome, the taste reminds me of black-eye beans/peas and being so small they give you a lovely texture and if […]

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Fish Stuffed with Herbs

August 13, 2011
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This is the sort of meal I like to cook in any given evening, easy to prepare and packs so much flavour which I can change depending on my whim on the day.  I came across these long fillets of hake, quite unusual where I live, as soon as I spotted them I started to […]

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Lemon & Thyme Chicken

July 19, 2010
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I have made this recently for friend’s coming over for lunch, it’s so simple to put together, packs so much flavour but no effort whatsoever.  I have thyme growing in pots on the patio and I always have a lemon, there would be something amiss in my kitchen if I didn’t have a lemon.   […]

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Very Quick Coronation Chicken

June 13, 2010
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I make my Coronation Chicken dairy-free but I remember the original recipe that I took this idea from had some crème fraîche (or substitute sour cream) which will make it even creamier.  This is a very quick version but it doesn’t mean it’s somehow inferior to one that you spent time making your own spice […]

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Aubergine (Eggplant), Tomato and Herb Salad

May 23, 2010
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I came home with the 2 yr old from shopping at the supermarket…you see…what you have to understand is this was the third time I had been to the supermarket with her in the same week because if you don’t already know… a routine shopping trip turns into major negotiations of,  ‘…no I don’t what […]

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Gabriela’s Pesto – Two Ingredients

April 26, 2010
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In my house I live two separate lives with regards to food.  One part of my life is the food I like to cook, experiment, share and maybe post about and then there’s the second side of my food life where I need to feed as best as I can a child with multiple-food allergies. […]

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Noodle Salad – Feeding Hungry Teenagers

March 29, 2010
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This noodle salad isn’t just to feed sixteen 15 year olds coming over to celebrate your daughter’s birthday, this is a good salad to make for family meals, pack lunch, to have in the fridge over the weekend giving you the answer to, ‘..what shall I snack on..’.  This was a one of very two […]

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Lightly Spiced Spinach with Apricots

March 14, 2010
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Some dishes have personal memories attached to them and this is one of them.  About two years into our relationship Bikerboy decided to cook Valentine’s dinner for me, he had picked out a recipe from the recently bought Cinnamon Club cookery book and saw a picture of a cylinder shaped breast of chicken stuffed with […]

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