Advice & Inspiration For Your Garden

squash and cumin soup with squash chips recipe

This is one of the best autumn soups for pumpkin or squash. The flavour improves if you cook it some time before. It also freezes well.for 4 3 teaspoons cumin seeds 1 teaspoon coriander se

rosemary flatbread recipe

You can make this recipe for rosemary flat bread standing on your head. The dough takes under 5 minutes to combine and about an hour to rise. This makes it ideal for whipping up quickly if you’ve got

split pea and mint croquettes recipe

Healthy, sustaining and absolutely delicious. I love this sort of imprecise recipe (from Crete) where you can suit yourself, adding mint one time and cumin the next. The sauce is equally delicio

spinach and ricotta cannelloni recipe

This classic dish is perfect for a big family Saturday lunch, or a vegetarian feast. The fresh lasagne sheets do not need any pre-cooking, but if using dried, follow the cooking instructions. Yo

spicy cauliflower recipe

Lovely spring cauliflower is used in this tasty one-pot dish. It's great with roast lamb or pork, and leftovers can be pureed to make the basis of a delicious soup - just add stock to thin it

green pawpaw, carrot and cashew salad

A classic Thai street food salad, based on pawpaw at its unripe, green stage, when it has all its anti-inflammatory and digestion-aiding properties, but none of the big sugar hit. The cashews en

spiced pickled beans

Rather than leaving them on the plant to toughen, pick beans when they're small and bottle them while in preserving jars. Fine French beans are the nicest, but baby runners are also delicious. T

watercress soup

This soup is very simple, with the pepperiness of watercress set against the creaminess of coconut milk. It’s also versatile; you can add a bunch of parsley, sorrel, mustard leaves, chard or spi

globe artichokes with angelica's sauce recipe

This recipe reminds me of Angelica, the cook in the house my parents used to rent in the Dolomites. I love the whole palaver of artichokes: pulling the leaves off and dipping them into the r

spiced aubergine salad recipe

This salad is lovely served warm as a first course with cucumber raita and flatbread.Serves 6-8 3 large-to-medium-sized aubergines (about 1kg) 3 tablespoons good extra virgin olive oil 1

slow-roast carrots with garlic lemon butter recipe

The best way to eat winter carrots is to slow-roast them whole for about an hour; it brings out their sweetness and flavour. This is an ideal veg to have on Christmas Day when time and oven spac

leek and potato soup recipe

January is a good time to make soup with last year’s maincrop potatoes, stored frost-free over the winter in a cool, dark spot in hessian bags. One of my favourite meal-in-a-bowl soups for this

ithaca pie recipe

This is the local version of spanakopita which we ate in a small taverna in Stavros. It was cooked with spinach mixed with horta – wild greens picked from the hillside. A combination of spinach,

roast cumin carrots recipe

The beauty of these carrots is that you can make them the day before – they are just as good reheated. The slow roasting brings out all their sweetness, and finely chopped rosemary can be used inst

stuffed butternut squash with creamy goat's cheese recipe

The shape, colour, texture and taste of this dish make it a good all-rounder in autumn and winter. The skin of the butternuts is thin, so once cooked, you can eat this too and then you’ll get all the

tricolour pepper caponata recipe

Make several jars of this sweet and sour mixture and store it in the fridge to eat through the autumn. Balsamic vinegar is a preservative, so it can be kept for up to a month. It's lovely wi