PARSNIP & RHUBARB

Parsnip, rhubarb & ginger soup  (Serves 2)

Adapted from Covent garden soup for everyday

25g butter

225g parsnips, peeled and roughly chopped

110g rhubarb, washed and roughly sliced

1 small onion, finely sliced

2 tsps fresh ginger, grated

420ml chicken/vegetable stock

1 tsp honey

Salt and black pepper

Melt butter & cook the parsnips, rhubarb, onion and grated ginger for 5 mins in a covered pan. Add stock and sugar. Bring to boil, then simmer gently for about 15 mins.  Blitz until smooth and garnish with sour cream & chives.

She looked faded and shop worn, in amongst all the glitter and gaud, as if Christmas had nothing to do with her.

Monique; Lisa Jewell

QUINCE & WHITE PEPPER

Roast quinces with maple syrup & white pepper

2tbsp sugar

8 whole white peppercorns

1tbsp lemon juice

2 quinces, peeled, halved and cored

2 tbsp maple syrup

Few ground white peppercorns

Bring the sugar, 250ml water and the whole peppercorns to the boil

Rub the quinces with lemon juice and add to the sugar syrup, simmer for about half an hour till tender. 

Preheat the oven 180°C.

Place the quinces in a baking dish with the cooking syrup

Add the maple syrup and ground pepper

Roast for 30 mins until they are golden and really tender

Serve with the cooking syrup and maple/vanilla ice cream

They sailed away, 

for a year and a day…

… and danced by the light of the moon

The owl and the pussycat

ORANGE & LAVENDER

Lavender marmalade steamed pudding (serves 10)

Marmalade

Add 2tbsp of dried lavender per 1kg of oranges 10 mins the before end of cooking

Pudding

Add 3tbsp marmalade to the base of a 2 litre pudding bowl and the zest of 2 oranges into the sponge mix

The conflict between tradition and modernity is by no means cut and dried.

BFI summary of the film Wild River (1960) directed by Elia Kazan and starring Montgomery Clift 

BLOOD ORANGE & RED ONION

Blood orange & red onion salad

Blood oranges, peel and pith removed and thinly sliced into rounds
Small red onion, sliced into thin rounds
Extra virgin olive oil
Mixed peppercorns, ground

She was still in her pyjamas but wearing a pair of red stilettos that she had bought for last years christmas party.  

BLUE CHEESE & GRAPEFRUIT

Blue cheese and pink grapefruit marmalade sandwich

“Refine the senses to enrich the experiences” was chalked up on the blackboard.

ORANGE & WHISKY

Marmalade

Add 75ml whisky at the end of boiling to every 1kg oranges used

A New year resolution to read more poetry.

But I foor up the glen at e'en,

To see my bony lassie;

And lang before the grey morn cam,

She was na hauf sae saucey.

A Waukrife Minnie by Robert Burns

CIDER & SEAWEED

Cider & seaweed loaf

250g wholemeal spelt flour

250g strong white bread flour

1 tsp salt

14g dried yeast

3 tbsp chopped dried seaweed

150ml sour milk / buttermilk

1tsp honey

250ml cider

Warm the milk and honey

Add to the flours, salt, yeast & seaweed

Add the cider and combine

Knead on a floured surface 1 min and return to the clean bowl

Cover and leave in warm place 1 hour

Knead 1 min and leave a further 30 mins

Shape into a ball and put on a floured baking sheet, dust with plenty more flour

Bake 240°C for 25mins

By mid-morning it would be stained with butter and honey. 

BANANA & BLACK GARLIC

Baked banana

1 banana

Juice & zest of ½ lime

Drizzle honey

15ml rum

1 clove black garlic, finely chopped

Peel the bananas and halve lengthways. Sprinkle the lime zest, juice and drizzle the honey.  Scatter with garlic and pour over rum. Put in an oven preheated to 220°C and bake for 15 minutes.

Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl

With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there

She would merengue and do the cha-cha

Copacabana Lyrics

LEMON & CHEESE

Lemon pickle & Wensleydale cheese on crusty bread

* 1 tbsp yellow mustard seeds

* 1 tsp cumin seeds 

* Small handful curry leaves

* 2 unwaxed lemons, chopped

* 3tbsp caster

* 1 small chilli, deseeded & finely sliced

Fry the mustard & cumin till they start to pop

Add the curry leaves for 1 minute then the rest of the ingredients

Cook for 10 minutes

Jamie magazine Sep/Oct 2012

The geometric, herringbone parquet flooring did very little to absorb the sound of the vacuum cleaner, TV and sounds of the 60’s which caused some heated discussion among the neighbours in the multi-occupancy flats.   

BLACK OLIVE & DARK CHOCOLATE

Black olive & dark chocolate tapenade

100g pitted black olives

10g melted dark chocolate

15g of anchovy fillets, drained

2 cloves of black garlic

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

½ tsp wholegrain mustard

Black pepper

1 tsp finely chopped rosemary

2 tsp Cocoa Nibs

Finely chop & mix all the ingredients

Artist, typographer, designer, critic, children’s author & amateur botanist; Peter Campbell.