Summer Recipes

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Pizza Dough: Vehicle for Leftovers

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Pizza Dough: Vehicle for Leftovers

Given I have an obsessive passion for everything and anything Italian, spent a month on a farm in the middle of nowhere [have a little read if you're curious...], promised more Italian recipes than I’ve actually yet delivered [please forgive me].  And somehow, ended up with a massive tub of Devi’s [Maltby St. Market regular] leftover Persian Aubergine - which I had no choice but to take home with me to save from the bin – along with a pesto from The Gay Farmer [other Maltby St. Market regular] that I’m dying to try.  Pizza dough, was the only logical upcycling solution that could do my street food leftovers justice.

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Coconut Bircher Muesli

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Coconut Bircher Muesli

The story for coconut Bircher Muesli goes as follows:

I had a bunch of coconut beverages in my fridge.  It was time for them to go.

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Braised Lettuce Hearts

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Braised Lettuce Hearts

Before explaining how to save a lettuce heart, let me first explain to you why I had so many lettuce hearts just chilling – literally, (unintentionally epic pun) – in my fridge.

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Strawberry Gazpacho

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Strawberry Gazpacho

As it turns out, for a first-time-maker, hesitant-fan, of gazpacho, I’m rather a fan of this recipe; it beautifully salvages the season’s overripe strawberries, greens included, uses up a handful of day-old bread, keeps refrigerated or frozen, quick AND easy make ahead meal, perfectly refreshing in summer, won first place in last week’s canapés contest and last but not least, is a PROVEN gazpacho converter [myself included, now a huge fan, unbiased I promise]. 

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Cauliflower Leaf Summer Salad

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Cauliflower Leaf Summer Salad

It’s funny how we often don’t think about what we don’t eat and why we don’t.  Cauliflower leaves are one such example.  Growing up, it’s what protected the food.  Now, it is the food.  When you don’t feel like spending on 101 cruciferous veg - that can cost an arm and a leg in some parts of the world - buy the cauliflower and get the best bang for your buck.

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Mediterranean Pasta Salad

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Mediterranean Pasta Salad

This is the best and only pasta salad, you will ever need in your life.  We can shake on it if you’d like?  Here’s why: it literally combines everything you need in a dish, in texture, flavour, colour, nutritional balance and indulgence.  Even Masterchef would be impressed.  So simple, packed with flavour, born from the simple desire to eat all our favourite things.  And whaddya know, perfect leftover-pasta-bestover-recipe (how's that for a tongue-twister): my mum’s Mediterranean Pasta Salad.