This hardly needs a recipe, other than the directive: throw yummy things in a bowl. This does check all the summer salad boxes though: something fruity, something crunchy, homemade dressing (the only kind), ubiquitous pickled shallot. Sweet Corn and Blackberry Salad with Basil Vinaigrette For the dressing 3 tbsp white...

We are smack in the middle of Ramadan, and dahi baray are one of our favorite iftaari dishes. They are basically fried dumplings made out of besan (chickpea/gram flour) in a thin yogurt sauce. You can also make them with lentils but Shan has made it clear he doesn’t like...

The pesto has lots of symbolic prosperity ingredients: basil for prosperity, almonds for money, leafy greens for bills and sweet corn for coins. It’s super healthy, and the sweet corn, which is deliciously in season, makes it the perfect easy end-of-summer recipe that’s a little more interesting than your average...

As I've probably mentioned, I'm completely obsessed with Game of Thrones, as are my sisters. We've been watching the show, reading the books, and most recently we (and the rest of our potluck people) have been cooking the food! Our first potluck was in dreary January at my sister Meg's...

Red peppers get all the love but the humble green pepper is fresh and unexpected. I had posted a green pepper soup recipe here years ago and it was one of my most popular; I’ve tweaked it slightly and taken terribly lit moody new photos. While not as sweet as...

It’s the most gloriously ghoulish time of the year, and what better way to celebrate it than with a spooktacular feast! What’s this? It’s #Burtoween! This month we’re creating recipes inspired by Tim Burton’s creepy, quirky films. Nightmare Before Christmas Pudding? A nice tall glass of Beetlejuice? Edward Skewerhands? Big...

As a child I somehow missed the Redwall books, Brian Jacques’s fantasy series of anthropomorphic animals in medieval times running around adventuring, which is unfortunate because I would have loved them! I’ve started two separate books (I started the first one, Redwall, and then – record scratch – the dish...

Day-in day-out Sally, #nevernotpoisoning, tries to poison the Evil Scientist using ingredients from her quaint little garden of deadly herbs. On this particular night, she uses her deadly nightshade masked by frog’s breath and worm’s wort. My version swaps ingredients for each of these – instead of deadly nightshade, an...

#FFDahlicious is a month for tasty eats inspired by Roald Dahl hosted by Katarina @ Pretty Cake Machine. Check the hashtag or the link up for lots of Dahl-inspired dishes. Violet Beauregarde, the gum-smacking, slang-slinging, disobedient daughter of a car salesman, is the second child to meet her demise in...