These came together in 20 minutes while chatting to the visitors, and with a few additions to the soup, made a knock up lunch into a feast.
This is one of my favourite recipes for a “meal tree” for a new mum.
Cassandra’s mum’s braised artichokes actually, and they’ve converted me.
Artichokes, to my mind, are too fiddly for everyday eating, but they make the absolute best party food.
This is one of those recipes where I go by the feel and the look, but I am going to try to write it down! In fact, once you have made it once and got the idea, it is infinitely versatile.
Ful medames are a traditional breakfast all through North Africa.
Chickpeas and silver beet, livened up with lemons and olives – the nice part about it is that it is the kind of filling, low fat, very yummy soup you can snack on all day and feel good in all sorts of ways.
These are the perfect party plate. They are best cold (though in our house a good percentage don’t make it that far). If you have a garden, most of the ingredients will come out of it.
This recipe makes a dozen omelette pikelets with just three eggs.
Nowadays I quite often make a meal that features vegetables as the main, not the side dish, and I very rarely use any water that will be drained off. If you garden, fresh vegetables are so gorgeous that it is hard to improve on just serving them as themselves.