Nov

Pumpkin soup courtesy of YOU!

Pumpkin soup

“super huge uber pumpkins only 50p in tescos at the moment – soup would be about 20p a day for a week non?”

So said a message from my my girlf this afternoon . . . and she’s right, you could easily use my recipe for soup with pumpkins, and at that price it would be even cheaper than normal.

And here’s my friend Jane’s appetizing version:

Pumpkin soup

Have a go yourself, let me know how you get on, and please share your own recipes. Take photos of your masterpiece and either send me a link or post them on Twitter and Tweet @scottcolfer. Happy cooking!

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Nov

How to make sweet potato soup – the perfect winter lunch.

Sweet potato soup

Sweet potato soup is hearty, warming fare.

You should get 4-5 servings from this recipe, and it’s suitable for freezing.

You’ll get a week’s worth of lunches in one batch. Sweet potato is one of my favourite vegetables for soup as it’s tasty and very filling. Bear in mind though that this is my basic recipe for soup – you can substitute the sweet potato for any vegetable of your choosing. Continue reading →

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Nov

Review: Maltby Street Market and Greensmiths, London.

Maltby Street Market

Go for a meandering food & drink walk south of the Thames, loosely focussing on Maltby Street.

Borough Market is great, but it’s often heaving with tourists to the point of frustration.

My friend recommended Maltby Street as a much smaller, much less busy alternative to Borough Market. Maltby Street isn’t a market, it’s a loose collection of shops all within a few streets of one another, mainly selling very expensive, but incredibly nice fruit, veg, cheese, meat, and drinks . . . Continue reading →

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Nov

Restaurant review: Hawksmoor, Seven Dials.

The Dining Room

Please sir, can I have some Hawksmoor?

I spent most of Halloween in a blissful food coma.

Why? I went for Sunday lunch at the new Hawksmoor restaurant in Seven Dials (near Covent Garden) . . . and it was good. Really good. Continue reading →

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Aug

The girl can cook.

My lovely girlfriend decided to have a crack at some of the boy’s recipes.

She made some excellent pesto and some very tasty fish fingers – good work!

After cranking up her laptop in the kitchen she first set to making the fish fingers. Continue reading →

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fish fingers/pesto

Aug

How to make your own ice cream (without an ice cream maker).

Homemade ice cream

Homemade ice cream isn’t healthy, but it is delicious.

I’ve made ice cream a few times before and this recipe has produced the best results.

It wasn’t crystalised or ‘crunchy’, but was soft and with just a couple of minutes out of the freezer it scoops easily.

Continue reading →

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dessert/homemade/ice cream

Aug

Courgettes and pesto – a Tweet along recipe.

Getting ready

Monday. 16th August 2010. 7pm. My first cook-a-long, on Twitter.

It was chaotic, at times it was frantic. And it was a blast.

The recipe was a secret until it was finished, all I had in advance were the ingredients and some suggestions re: equipment. The cooking was led by Chef Tim Maddams of River Cottage’s Landshare and hosted by Central Station as part of ‘Harvest’ (a celebration of food and growing taking place on 28th August in Glasgow, and delivered by NVA). I set up my Macbook in the kitchen, fired up Twitter, prepared my ingredients, and waited for it to kick off . . . Continue reading →

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Aug