Side dishes

Rosemary Focaccia

March 28, 2011

“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.”
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet

Bread, it’s one of the simple pleasures in life. It’s wonderful aroma fills your home with it’s welcoming scent when it’s being baked. It tastes delicious and is a staple in many diets, in varying forms. Such as focaccia.

Rice Stuffed Tomatoes

February 11, 2011

Giada DeLaurentiis Stuffed Tomatoes Recipe

This fortnights Cookbook Challenge was Rice/Noodles and immediately thought of risotto, which I love, but I wanted to do something different. I flipped through my cookbooks for inspiration and stumbled across Rice Stuffed Tomatoes in Everyday Italian by Giada DeLaurentiis and thought I’d give that a try. I love tomatoes and I love rice so I thought it would be a great combination.

Lemon potato salad

June 1, 2010

This salad certainly went down a treat, and is quite a change from the usual heavy cream based potato salads. Whilst as satisfying as a regular potato salad you aren’t left with that heavy feeling and as a result of the lemon you feel somewhat refreshed. This salad would be perfect for summer as part of a BBQ or picnic.

Roast tomato, onion, feta, olive and basil salad

May 27, 2010

When I made the zucchini, haloumi and feta fritters recently I wanted a delicious salad to go with it. I love roast tomatoes and often make a risotto with roasted cherry tomatoes, so I decided to try roast tomatoes (this time Roma tomatoes) in a salad. The results were delicious.

Coriander and cashew pesto

May 24, 2010

Coriander (cilantro) and cashew pesto makes a nice change from the usual basil and pine nut pesto. Coriander pesto provides you with a lot of variety as it can be used to flavour soups (such as my carrot and coriander soup), as a dip, on bruschetta, in a stir fry, as a dressing for some beautiful roast vegetables, as a flavouring for meat, or on pasta.