A quick supper from ” Nigellissima” by Nigella Lawson. Serve with rocket or perhaps some wilted spinach, and good bread if you like to mop up the juices.
A classic French dish from Picardy which i found in Claire Thomson’s latest book ” Home Cookery Year”. She makes it with a bread dough base rather than the traditional pastry crust and it works well.
More comfort food in this recipe for slow fried potatoes with cheese from Nigel Slater. Charlotte or Belle de Fontenay Potatoes are good to use, but you can use any salad potato that will hold its shape. This can be served as a main course or as a side dish .
Prawn Palava is a fish stew with greens from West Africa and is one of the favourite dishes in the region. This version comes from Sierra Leone. The chipotle chilli flakes give it a slightly smoky flavour, but alternatively you could use a small piece of smoked fish.
While in England we tend to have scrambled eggs for breakfast in Spain they are more likely to be offered for lunch or supper. There are many versions, but this is a favourite vegetarian one. If you like, you could add prawns. The oyster mushrooms could be replaced with other wild mushrooms such as girolles.
I used to eat chicken a lot more often than i do now, and would frequently turn to Nigel Slaters cookbooks for inspiration when i wanted to do something simple and quick. This is from his book ” Real Cooking” 1997.
