Rupert recommended this recipe to me, so I’m putting it on my “todo”.
Put the butter (large knob), 2 glugs of olive oil, the sage (handful) and garlic (6 cloves, peeled, crushed) into a thick-bottomed, non-stick pan. Stir everything round and add the onions (5 red, 3 large white), shallots (3 banana) and leeks (300g). Season with salt and pepper. Place a lid on the pan, leaving it slightly ajar, and cook slowly for 50 minutes, without colouring the vegetables too much. Remove the lid for the last 20 minutes – your onions will become soft and golden. Stir occasionally so that nothing catches on the bottom.
When your onions and leeks are lovely and silky, add the stock (2 litres, beef/chicken/veg). Bring to the boil, turn the heat down and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. You can skim any fat off the surface if you like, but I prefer to leave it because it adds good flavour.
There’s some optional mucking about with cheese on toast in the original recipe that I have omitted here for brevity.
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Just finished off a mammoth round of pancakes for breakfast. I normally use Nigella’s recipe from, umm, one of her cookbooks but I can’t find the book at the moment and Google only turned up a recipe with American units in (cups? I, for one, do not have cups that come in a standard size! What about my holds-a-full-pint tea mug for example?).
Rather than mess around converting the units I went back to Google and found this recipe on the BBC which actually turned out nicer than the Nigella recipe so I’m noting it down here for future reference.
Put in a blender jug:
- 250ml whole milk
- 2 eggs
- 50g melted butter
Whizz the blender. Then add
- 250g plain flour (don’t bother sifting it)
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoon sugar
Whizz the blender thoroughly. Leave to stand for half an hour. Grease a frying pan with butter, pour batches from the blender, etc. I’m not going to tell you how to fry pancakes!
These quantities make about 12 thick pancakes or so if you make them 8cm across. One-and-a-half times these quantities (I generally only make pancakes for breakfast when I have hungover company, which dictates making them in industrial quantities) is about all you can make in a 1.5 litre blender jug.
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