Bulgur Pilaf Turkish Style
A versatile dish which can be made with bulgur wheat or couscous. Serve it warm as a side dish or cold as a summer salad.
Salads
Spiced Lentil Salad
An easy and refreshing side dish that’s a hit with vegetarians and carnivores alike. A BBQ must!
Watercress, sugar-snap and Avocado salad with an Oriental-style Dressing
This recipe is only half of the original from Nigella Lawson. I didn’t see any reason to post the whole recipe as the bit I left out is really just a fried salmon steak.
Portuguese Chickpea and Roasted Garlic Salad
This simple Portuguese salad recipe was given to me by my friends aunt. It’s wonderfully aromatic and packed full of flavour.
I made it for the first time yesterday and served it with devilled belly pork and jacket potatoes – it was delicious!
A Vegetarian Menu
I had some friends around for dinner last night.They are fish eating vegetarians but for a change, instead of playing safe and cooking salmon like I usually do when I have fish eating vegetarians round for dinner, I decided to cook something totally veggie. I’d had this recipe of Delia’s knocking around for sometime and [...]
Gado Gado
Apologies for the sporadic posts but once again I’m in the middle of packing up house with another move on the cards.Luckily most things are still boxed up from the last time so it shouldn’t take too long. We haven’t quite decided where we’re moving to yet but we’ve narrowed it down to Leicestershire (my [...]
Macaroni and Herring Salad
I was a bit unsure about making this salad but as my partner loves herring, especially rollmops I thought I’d take a chance. I’ve never had rollmops before and I always expected them to be quite sour but the vinegar was sweet and well flavoured with onions. It turned out surprisingly tasty and refreshing and [...]
Cumin Chicken and Avocado Salad
A slight variation on a simple and tasty summer salad recipe from Sarah Buenfeld, food director for BBC Good Food magazine. It works extremely well served with Baked sweet potatoes andChickpea and roasted red pepper salad. CUMIN CHICKEN AND AVOCADO SALADServes 4 INGREDIENTS:2 tbsp olive oil1 heaped tsp cumin powder1 heaped tsp mild chilli powder4 [...]
Chickpea and Roasted Red Pepper Salad
A simple but tasty salad that can be served as it is or made a bit more special by roasting your own red peppers and adding a few chopped antipasto ingredients like grilled aubergine slices and sun-dried tomatoes in oil. It makes a good side dish to grilled meats and kebabs and goes extremely well [...]
Shopska salad
Salads in Bulgaria are usually eaten as a starter, but they are normally so big that it’s not uncommon for the main meal to be served and for the salad to be left on the table as an accompaniment.There is usually at least one page in every restaurant menu dedicated to salads in Bulgaria, Shopska [...]
