Sausages in an aromatic sweet and sour sauce from ” Mezcla” by Ixta Belfrage. If you like you could add some tinned or jarred beans to make this a more substantial dish, or serve with grilled bread to mop up the juices. Tuscan or Sicilian fennel and chilli sausages are good in this if you can find them, but if not any good quality and quite fatty sausages will do nicely.
These eggs are perfect for breakfast but also work well for lunch or supper, served with a green salad and bread to mop up the juices. The recipe is from ” Mezcla” by Ixta Belfrage.
This Georgian salad would usually be served alongside other hot and cold Zabuski at the beginning of a meal, accompanied by warm bread. Its from ” Notes from a Small Kitchen Island” by Debora Robertson.
A summer favourite from Claire Thomson’s ” Home Cookery Year”. It is best served warm rather than piping hot. Serve with a green salad. You can use the same method and switch around the summer vegetables- baked cherry tomatoes, fried squash or blanched broad or green beans will all work well.
This dish from Damascus may not sound that enticing but I assure you it is most delicious. It’s from ” Sumac” by Anas Atassi. If you are vegetarian replace the chicken stock with vegetable stock.
A favourite way with smoked haddock which is said to have been invented in The Savoy Hotel, London. It is usually served as a breakfast dish but also makes a very good supper. This version is from Rick Stein’s ” Seafood Lovers Guide”.
A lovely recipe for new season lamb from ” Sea & Shore” by Emily Scott. Serve with some purple sprouting or tenderstem broccoli and accompany with some redcurrant jelly or mint sauce.
An easy dish from Pasture restaurant in Bristol, which I found in ” The Bristol and Bath Cookbook”. It will serve four as a starter. Serve with hunks of warm sourdough to mop up the juices.