Handpicked Links December 2008

by sophie on December 8, 2008 · 9 comments

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A few favourite finds from over the last few weeks.
  • Winter fruit salad – Smitten Kitchen has a gorgeous winter fruit salad made with pear, apples, pomegranate seeds and dried fruit, scented with star anise, vanilla and lemon zest.
  • Ginger jewelled salad – Heidi Swanson has come up with a stunning dried fruit studded salad that somehow combines a lightness
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chicken casserole with dumplings

Last Sunday was all about using up the ends of a roast chicken from a couple of weeks before, plus sundry other odds and ends from the fridge.  I was so pleased with the end result I thought I’d share it here:  a homely chicken casserole with seasonal veggies, spelt and light dumplings made with rosemary and lemon.

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Pears

This post is first of a new set of seasonal guides on Mostly Eating.  Quarterly seems like a good timescale for a produce guide; long enough to hide those little uncertainties induced by geography and climate which can easily throw things out by a few weeks.

Here’s what you will find in here:

  • a list of fruits and vegetables in
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A few little changes for Autumn

by sophie on October 14, 2008 · 5 comments

I’m doing that commute again at the moment and our cooking has been very much of the tried and tested variety, hence the slightly light recipe flow.  I have however been indulging my inner geek and making a few cosmetic and technical tweaks to Mostly Eating.  First of all, I decided it would be fun to have a bit of … Read the full post

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