STAR ANISE & PEANUTS

Boiled Chinese peanuts

* 100g shelled raw peanuts

* 25g soft brown sugar

* 25ml tamari sauce

* 2 star anise

* 1 small cinnamon stick

* 1 dried chilli

* 235ml water

Boil all covered for 2 hours in a non reactive saucepan.

Strain before serving.

Those casual conversations about their honeymoon were quickly becoming the only topic of conversation. The wine & peanuts on the table were as good a distraction as any. 

WASABI & GREEN TOMATO

Fried green tomatoes & wasabi buttermilk sauce 

* 1 slice of sourdough bread, breadcrumb
* Handful of parsley, chopped 
* 1 egg, beaten
* Green tomatoes
Mix the parsley & breadcrumbs & season
Dip the tomatoes in the egg & the breadcrumbs
Shallow fry
Whisk together a dressing of

* ½tsp dijon

* 50ml buttermilk

* 1tbsp mayonaise

* wasabi 

He preferred to be seen as an artist within the great European tradition of Juan Gris & Georges Braque, while his bold paintings based on the everyday celebrated the arrival of colour, food, fun & a sense of the exotic in British cultural landscape.
Patrick Caulfield at Tate Britain, Tate etc

BLOOD ORANGE & ROSEMARY

Blood orange & rosemary frozen yogurt

* 3 cups Greek yogurt

* 2 tbsp grated orange zest

* 2 cups of freshly squeezed blood orange juice

* ½ cup agave syrup

* 3 sprigs Rosemary

* Pinch of salt

* 2 tbsp Chase marmalade vodka

Heat the agave, orange & rosemary – infuse, cool & discard the rosemary

Mix all & cool in the fridge

Churn in an ice cream maker

A little rouge pigment on her cheeks was all she needed to play the title role.

HAZELNUT & PEACH

Hazelnut & peach muesli

* ½ tbsp hazelnut oil

* 2 cups spelt flakes

* 1 cup barley flakes

* 1 tbsp wheatgerm

* ¼ cup pumpkin seeds

* ¼ cup linseeds

* ¼ tsp cinnamon

Mix & bake on a tray at 180°C for 15 minutes. Give it a shake every so often.

* Add 1 cup hazelnuts & bake for another 5 min.

* Add 1 cup dried chopped peaches

It never occurred to me that I couldn't read an Ordnance Survey map. It was spread out across the breakfast table – a birds eye view of the country waiting to be deciphered.  

RADISH & ROSE

Radishes dipped in butter & rose petal salt

The roses and picket fences were superseded by a more masculine approach.

BLOOD ORANGE & GINGER

Blood orange & ginger steamed pudding

(Adapted from Ruby Tandoh's recipe for Guardian; cook)

He would perform the same magic trick, hiding something under his hat.  He had teased us with that all those years ago. Nothing & everything seemed to have changed in that moment.  

PEANUT & LIME

Peanut, miso & lime dressing

* 2tbsp chunky peanut butter

* 1tsp white miso

* 1tsp brown rice vinegar

* ½ lime, juice

* 2tbsp water

* Black pepper

Mix together & drizzle over roasted vegetables or salad leaves 

He discovers that in being simple, honest, and straightforward, nothing much happens: he speaks the speakable, whereas what we are looking for is the as-yet unspeakable, the as-yet unspoken.

Donald Barthelme

GOOSEBERRY & SAFFRON

Roasted saffron red gooseberries

Put the gooseberries, a knob of butter, pinch of saffron & a drizzle of honey in a baking dish & roast at 180ºC for 15 minutes. Serve warm with a dollop of crème fraiche.

“And what’s more, when they finish, it’s a rite of passage. You’re finished with school. You’re no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school — reading books, having ideas, asking questions — that’s kid’s stuff. Now your’e an adult, you don’t do that sort of thing anymore…”  

Isaac Asimov

MANCHEGO & PEACH

Manchego cheese & dried peaches 

He even proposed that the Colosseum was more attractive in ruins than it could ever have been.

Alan de Botton;Status Anxiety