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Vanilla Rhubarb with Blood Orange – an end of season treat
This is hardly a recipe. When you have something as preciously short-seasoned as blood oranges they demand respect. Respect to me is letting them glow, sharply-sweet, either on their own or atop...
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Bergamot and Rose Rhubarb Cake
I’m feeling inordinately chuffed with myself. I, who am normally fairly immune to the charms of cakes – hormonal fluctuations notwithstanding – not only broke out of my comfort zone and yesterday made...
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Vanilla and Turmeric Polenta Cake with Roasted Rhubarb and Grapes
The first, slender shocking-pink stalks of January’s forced rhubarb have come and gone. And at quite a ticket. Did you take home a paltry bundle at exorbitant price like I did? If so, did you roast it...
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Rhubarb and Strawberry Salad with Almonds, Mint and Lemon Verbena
Growers of rhubarb – of the assertive and open-air type rather than tender and under wraps – will have already witnessed the wonder that is its growing habit. From a tight-fisted angry bunch, bursting...
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Blueberry & Rhubarb Cardamom Crunch Bars (vegan recipe)
I have just realised that while I have been happily geeking out on gochujang this, and aquafaba the other (and then some), perhaps I have neglected the normal side of my cooking. And I am normal – I...
View ArticleCardamom-scented Rhubarb and Apple Crumble
For years I have had a not-so-secret crush on cardamom. Although I enjoy savouring the superlative pearl sugar-topped cardamom buns served at Edinburgh’s Peter’s Yard coffee house, I usually settle...
View ArticleBrown Butter Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Roasted Rhubarb
Hope you don’t mind, but I want to throw another breakfast recipe your way. Don’t worry, I’m not sneaking in kale or tofu this time, just a scoop of cottage cheese. Which isn’t too odd if you think...
View ArticleCrispy Sichuan Pepper Mackerel with Rhubarb and Star Anise Sauce
I think today is the last of our summer days for a wee while. Unlike in many other countries, where seasons are either clearly defined, or a climate firmly established, Britain seems subject to the...
View ArticleCake: Friend or Foe? Rhubarb and Cardamom Friendship Cake
I think I might have crossed some kind of invisible line with you last time. As always when I post a recipe there is the slightly anxious wait until the first ‘like’ button is pushed, or the first...
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