I had some leftover black pudding lingering in the fridge after an indulgent breakfast-for-dinner some nights earlier. I knew I’d seen a recipe for a black pudding ragu in one of go-to cookbooks but I had to look through index after index before I found it in Thomasina Miers’ reliable […]
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For someone who isn’t a ‘Chilli Head’, (I start to sweat even looking at a bottle of the ubiquitous Sriracha sauce), I fucking love a chilli! I’ve had to add a dedicated chilli section dedicated to them here on Pigley’s Kitchen, or maybe I’ll just set up a separate chilli-fangirl […]
Where better to start a blog than with breakfast. Turkish eggs seem a very en vogue breakfast at the moment. I’ve seen recipes for them in several cookbooks released over the last year or so (notably, Diana Henry’s Simple and Nigella’s At My Table). Dan Doherty seems to be the […]
Everyday Brownies… because one should never consider a life where one cannot enjoy a brownie everyday. After reinvigorating the art of home-baking with her sophomore tome, How To Be a Domestic Goddess, long before that exiled BBC TV show, the Rt. Honourable Nigella Lawson should be rightfully viewed as a […]
I wish it could be Chilli Friday everyday… Fridays often calls for a treat meal and our household are big fans of a Chilli in most of it’s guises. While the real thing calls for beef as per tradition, with an eye to reducing my red meat I’ve long since […]
I was pleasantly surprised by the recipes I’ve tried from Alex Hely-Hutchinson’s 26 Grains. There is a lot of variety from the renowned porridge cafe. This, Roasted Sesame Veg with Pearl Barley and Cinnamon Dressing, was my first attempt. I chose it because it fit the bill for Meat Free Monday, but […]
I cooked this recently, wanting to use up the tamarind paste that’s sat unused since the first time I cooked this recipe. However, after buying all the ingredients, arriving home and opening Nigella Express only to realise that I hadn’t in fact cooked Curry in a Hurry before. I had […]
I think it was Ruby Tandoh (of Great British Bake Off fame) who first pointed me in the direction of Masterchef alumni Rukmini Iyer’s inventive book, The Roasting Tin. Not personally mind, just via Instagram. Some of Nigella’s best recipes are her traybakes, so a whole book dedicated to the […]