As I write, it’s the start of a weekend that promises to be properly summery. I’m sure many BBQs are being planned (including ours). In which case, I can thoroughly recommend this glorious tabbouleh. It uses very few ingredients and is one of those recipes that is so much more than the sum of its…
Tag: Summer
Sorrel and lentil soup
Last year, in lockdown 1, I bought a selection of home-propogated plants from a friend. One of these was sorrel, which I was told would add architecture to the border. This weekend, I needed to cut it back (you can see how vigorous it is from the first photo). So I thought I’d also have…
Courgette caponata
I’d never bothered with caponata, partly because it’s usually based on aubergine, which I don’t mind but other members of the family are less keen on, and partly because aubergine usually involves enormous quantities of olive oil. Also, I never knew what to have it with. But earlier in the summer, I was researching ideas…
Oven-dried tomatoes
I am slightly addicted to tomatoes. And they’re wonderful at the moment, especially if you’re lucky enough to source Isle of Wight Tomatoes. I eat them like I would sweets. But I also love this slow recipe for very ripe, larger tomatoes. You need five hours – but can do a batch and it only…
Baked stuffed tomatoes
I have never in my life stuffed vegetables. It’s always seemed to me to be unappealing and old-fashioned. That was, that is, my lovely friend Julia, in Italy, sent me a photo of home-grown beef tomatoes stuffed with rice, basil and cheese. They looked heavenly. So when we had some family members visiting recently, I…
The Veg Isle 