From the category archives:

Cool food, hot summer

Pasta with zucchini, almonds and fresh herbs

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I don’t know about you, but I always have a couple of courgettes at the bottom of the fridge, hiding in plain sight like beached torpedoes. It’s my fault – as one of the few vegetables that arrive in Nassau, I’m bored of them even by the time I get to the checkout desk. But this [...]

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Chicken, orange and almond salad

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Mum and Dad are in New Zealand at the moment, where Dad is on a jolly invitational lectureship, wowing the Kiwis, no doubt, in all matters mathematical philosophy and logic. Mum seems to be settling in too, in a whirl of coffee mornings, farmers markets and local Sauvignon. I think she’ll take to retirement quite [...]

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Three deliciously controversial gelato flavours: toasted sesame and butterscotch; brown bread; beetroot stracciatella ice-creams

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Mr R&R would like it known upfront that he’s morally opposed to this post. It deeply offends his Italian sensibilities, history, culture, in fact everything that he stands for, and is an affront to the metric tonnes of ice-cream he’s consumed so far, and and insult to the hard-working families producing authentic gelati the length [...]

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A light gelato with green tea, hazelnut, mocha and ginger variations

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The following is my standard ice-cream recipe – a light custard base which will take infinite variations – flavour the milk and cream before cooking, stir in liquid ingredients into the custard or add chunky pieces just as the ice-cream is nearly done churning.
I worked on this recipe (well, it didn’t really feel [...]

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Orange cauliflower, almond and green olive salad with pearl barley

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Salads with farro, or pearl barley*, make a super store-cupboard meal – this type of grain cooks in just 15 minutes with no pre-soaking, giving you enough time to prepare the other ingredients so that supper can be on the table in less than half-an-hour. It’s lovely piping hot as a lighter alternative to risotto, [...]

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Meringue ice-cream (gelato alla meringa)

One of the idiosyncrasies of living in Nassau is that shipments of goods arrive on the island only periodically and are delivered to the shops at exactly the same time. Suddenly every store seems to have an unending source of 3-ply napkins, or Activia yoghurt, or dishwasher tablets. If you arrive just at the right moment, [...]

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