Lynne's Dinners

It is still very hot. It was 27 degrees in my office, and 29 in the kitchen. Oof. I KNOW lots of you in the world regularly have hotter. ...

I have discovered a forgotten liking for crab sticks. If you check the amount of fish in the sticks, and get the ones with the most they are...

Three salads today.. new potatoes with parsley and red onion in a mustardy vinaigrette. A Hass Avocado salsa with lime and coriander, and  l...

Lovely day yesterday at the Essex Food Festival, with a detour on the way home to The Food Company just outside Colchester, where I picked u...

It has been nice and warm and I've not felt like blogging. But I've still been photographing my dinners.. so to follow is a mad ca...

Fab salad with the first of the English runners I have had this year. Based on a salad by Lindsey Bareham, with a few tweaks of my own. Love...

I love gremolata, and this rich, tomato-ey beef stew is just an excuse to scatter it over the top with wild abandon.. A very simple s...

This should have been very delicious, and it will be if you make it with a decent quality of gravlax. However, I was tempted by the bargain ...

As I write this it is Monday evening. And still the house smells of grilled sardines. We have had doors and windows open, Febreze has been s...

I love paella. And paella type rice dishes, even if they would anathema to a red-blooded Spaniard.  This is paella in my book as it cooked a...

It can be lovely to try new things, especially frugal things that might otherwise be thrown away.  I was lucky to get a fabulously fresh bun...

More leftovers to use up, this is yesterday's ratatouille, Sunday's last smidgeon of BBQ sauce, and an extra garlic bread from Sunda...

Two fat luscious lamb chops, grilled until the fat is slightly charred. With ratatouille (but without the aubergines because there weren...

Lovely left-overs. Great to have the main part of the cooking sorted, so you can just play about with the sides.  We had left over boiled ne...

Rather nice dinner for the Amazing IzzyWizzy's 2nd birthday today.. My famous Barbecue Chicken taken from my very old Supercook books, t...

After the delicious asparagus starter, we weren't all that hungry, so a light but sustaining salad of Pedon 5 grains - my latest favour...

I had one last bunch of English asparagus left, that I just wanted to savour. There won't be any more this year, so it is goodbye until ...

Lovely light salad today, chickpeas, tomatoes, cucumber, avocado and coriander, dressed with chilli and lime juice, with a nice bright green...

Delicious fishy dinner, a tail of monkfish filleted and wrapped in pancetta, roasted and then finished under the grill to crisp the pancetta...

Salad today, puy lentils and 5-grains, mixed with tomatoes, radishes, lots of herbs and fresh lettuce, with Bayonne ham and Salami shredded ...