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CLOSED: A Copy of The Aubergine Cookbook by Heather Thomas

It’s always good to experiment with food. But when cooking with something relatively new, it can be difficult to know where to start. That’s how we...

Aubergine fritters

Recipe: Aubergine Fritters with Honey

In the latest recipe from The Aubergine Cookbook (by Heather Thomas), we share the delicious aubergine fritters. Served with a salad, these would make...

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Cooking Guide: Complimentary Conversion Chart

We’ve created this super handy cooking/baking conversion guide for you, our lovely readers. It includes the various oven temperatures; weight into...

Chickpea salad

Recipe: Roast Aubergine & Chickpea Salad

This month we’re trialing a number of recipes from the interesting new cookbook by Helen Thomas; The Aubergine Cookbook– look out for our review...

Watercress Beetroot & Grapefruit Salad

Recipe: Watercress Beetroot & Grapefruit Salad

A super easy, vibrant and sweet salad- a perfect starter, including our key ingredient of the month, Grapefruit. Ingredients: 1 Florida Pink Grapefruit 180g...

Mini Melon Medley with Prawns in a Ginger Dressing

Recipe: Mini Melon Medley with Prawns in a Ginger Dressing

Our seasonal fruit of the month is the grapefruit; low in calories (when not laden with sugar), the grapefruit is an excellent source of vitamin C and...

Beetroot And Lentil Salad With Creamy Goat’s Cheese

Recipe: Beetroot And Lentil Salad With Creamy Goat’s Cheese

Healthy eating is tough in the Winter when it’s so cold outside and all we are equipped with is cold salads that just don’t seem appetising....

Recipe: Cranberry & Brie Bruschetta

Ingredients: 1 tsp olive oil 2 garlic cloves,finely chopped 250g cranberries 100g light brown muscovado sugar 4 fresh lemon thyme sprigs, plus extra to...

Spiced parsnip and carrot soup

Recipe: Spiced parsnip and carrot soup

Ingredients: 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 onion, roughly chopped 1–2 Cooks’ Ingredients Red Chillies, deseeded and chopped 1 tbsp Bart Garam Masala 500g...

Waitrose prawn and cod cakes

Recipe: Prawn & cod cakes with cucumber salad

Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Total time: 25 minutes Serves: 4 Ingredients 1 cucumber portion, halved and seeded 100g radishes,...

Recipe: Pea and Mint Soup

There use to be this amazing deli in Weston that made the most delicious pea and mint soup (Munch Deli)- when that closed a few years ago, I went home...

Recipe: Brussels Sprouts, Chicken and Pecorino Winter Salad

Now here is a winter salad I can really get behind (I’m a MAJOR sprouts fan) and it’s super easy; perfect for the busiest time of year for all- Thanks M&S! Ready in 30  minutes, Serves 6 Ingredients: 1 tbsp olive oil 2 garlic cloves, sliced Pinch chilli flakes 4 spring onions, sliced 400g shredded sprouts or Brussels sprouts, trimmed and shredded 1 rotisserie...

Recipe: Duck and plum salad

As the nights draw in we turn our backs on salads and towards more comforting food for warmth to help us through the cold, dreary months.  It now you can put salad back on the menu; why not try this M&S warm salad for your source of comfort? When we are back in the country (where I hear it is just ghastly!) this will be first on my list to try! Ingredients ·...