From the category archives:

Sleek and healthy

Nigella would call this Temple food – these are recipes for de-stuffing the turkey (i.e. oneself) after a series of over-indulgences.

Instant zen papaya and lime salad

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This is the way Mr. R&R ate papaya while travelling through Africa, and apparently it’s incredibly good for the stomach. It is certainly very calming to prepare – the beautiful sunset colours of the papaya and glistening ebony seeds, a bit of gentle slicing and squeezing. And it’s delicious to eat, the soothing banana and yoghurt [...]

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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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Stuffed acorn squash with cranberries, wild rice and walnuts

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I’m afraid that Thanksgiving was rather overshadowed in our house by the excitements of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We got pretty hot and bothered by the new Dyson vacuum cleaner (ticks all my boxes: limited edition, “Apple Mac”-white, extraneous scientific rationale, an accessory for every eventuality) and ignored the founding fathers. But I can’t [...]

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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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