Hej, Matt J!

Recipe from Nigellissima. You know just from the name of this that it is going to be wonderful. A Panna Cotta is often my chosen desert if it’s on the menu, but I’d yet to make one. I did have to spend a bit of time tracking down the dariole moulds to make these. Nigella…

Recipe from Nigella Express I think this is one of my most cooked recipes from the Nigella Lawson back catalogue, probably after the Choc Chip Chilli. I first saw this one on the Nigella App that was released many years ago, it was one of a handful of recipes that were given a video tutorial…

Recipe from FEAST. Courgettes were one of the vegetables that I hated when I was younger, I expected the freshness of cucumber but got flavourless mush. It took me years to come around to it but I am now a proud courgette appreciator. I always feel I’m being that little bit better to myself when…

Recipe from Nigella Express. I won’t lie, it was a cloudy day, but the lemonade did bring me some sunshine that day. Zingy, citrusy and refreshing ay eff. To apologise for the sausage rolls I inflicted on my colleagues I shared a flask of this with them and it made up for it. A pitcher…

Recipe from How to Eat. I’ve never cooked duck before, and it’s so easy to do, and so lush to eat, that I don’t know why it’s taken me this long to do so. Look how beautiful the duck is against the bright colours of the orange salsa. Like the Georgian melon and relish from…

Recipe from Nigella Express. Simple, stupendous and so so satisfying. The recipe list is minimal (lettuce, sweetcorn, cheese and avocado), but it’s the dressing that makes this what it is, luscious (and I’m saying healthy, it is a salad after all!) One of my favourite sounds in the world is ripping lettuce, so on top…

Recipe from Nigella Bites. The first recipe from the last of the books used in this project, and my most unused of the books. I made a load of these and took most into work to share with my colleagues, and after eating a couple first at home, I did precede their enjoyment with the…

Recipe from FEAST. I don’t think I’ve ever had a Georgian food before making this recipe. The heat of the relish (known as Adzhika) against the cool of the melon really does make the tongue tingle, and everyone at the table enjoyed the fire of it. It’s a simple process of blitzing all the ingredients,…

Recipe from FEAST. Yes, that is Christmas Pasta, it was, at the time, all the pasta I had in the house. Using store bought cooked ham, this was a simple and quick recipe to make, a tasty recipe to eat, and merry on the tastebuds. Great for the nights you cba to do anything heavy.

Recipe from Kitchen. I’ve made a number of salads for this project now and this one definitely leaves the biggest impression on the tongue. The chilli and ginger dressing leaves a tongue-tingling taste with each bite. I used tortilla chips here (labelled in the book as the alternate to wonton wrappers) purely because I am…