Lydia Gerratt

ABOUT ME

During my travels as a Food Buyer for Waitrose I learnt so much from farmers, growers, food producers, chefs and food lovers.

Through them I developed the knowledge and expertise to find the most flavoursome good quality ingredients at the right time of year from the best countries to create the tastiest meals.

Lydia Gerratt

Jan 2
3 min

Porcini mushroom and cream pasta

I have gained access (via my brother and his Polish girlfriend) to an amazing supply of dried wild porcini mushrooms, grown in a Polish forest close to the U...

Lydia Gerratt

Mar 27, 2019
2 min

Lemon sole baked with butter, white wine, lemon and parsley

This is such a good way to cook fish - it’s all about the technique of cooking rather than a complicated recipe. It’s definitely one you need in your arsenal...

Lydia Gerratt

Mar 26, 2019
3 min

Toum; Lebanese garlic sauce

Every time I go to Maroush, a family run Lebanese restaurant in London, I always include an order of garlic sauce. It is the very best pairing for charcoal g...

Lydia Gerratt

Feb 15, 2019
3 min

Tuscan vegetable bean soup

The best thing about this soup is its intense savoury flavour; it gets better and better with each ingredient and is definitely one to keep for eating the da...

Lydia Gerratt

Feb 11, 2019
3 min

Tomato and butter pasta sauce

This is one of those pasta sauces that you need to have in your recipe arsenal. It’s bloody brilliant. How can it taste so ridiculously good when it only h...

Lydia Gerratt

Dec 5, 2018
3 min

Cantonese style sea bass with ginger and spring onions

My Chinese mother-in-law made this beautifully fragrant sea bass for me (among a feast of many dishes squished on her dining table) when I was pregnant with ...

Lydia Gerratt

Sep 20, 2018
3 min

Faširane šnicle - pork burgers

Faširane šnicle remind me of week night dinners, squashed around my parent’s kitchen table with my sisters and brother, grabbing as much food onto our plates...

Lydia Gerratt

Jun 15, 2018
2 min

Peas with feta, mint and lemon zest

I WANT to eat heavenly flavours during the summer. This recipe has got to be one of the most delicious ways to eat a lot of peas……with creamy soft feta, fre...

Lydia Gerratt

May 27, 2018
3 min

Slow baked aubergines in a rich tomato sauce

Slow baked aubergines in a rich tomato sauce with a hint of cinnamon, eaten with full fat Greek yoghurt and Turkish bread is the best dinner. Frying the aube...

Lydia Gerratt

Apr 16, 2018
2 min

Roast chicken salad with crisp bread, tarragon and spring onions

Can you imagine what big chunks of crusty white bread taste like after they have been roasted under a chicken for 50 minutes while soaking up all the flavour...

Lydia Gerratt

Mar 17, 2018
2 min

Turkish poached eggs with yoghurt and Aleppo pepper

Hot, foaming chilli butter poured over poached eggs, sitting in a well of garlic yoghurt is Çilbir (Turkish eggs). There is something very delicious and trul...

Lydia Gerratt

Mar 7, 2018
2 min

Enoki (Golden needle) mushrooms with garlic, spring onion and soya sauce

You need this recipe in your life. It takes minutes to cook and the flavours and texture are so satisfying that you’ll feel that contented happiness from th...

Lydia Gerratt

Feb 27, 2018
1 min

Fennel, orange, black olive and caper salad

Move aside food glitterati, this is one seriously seasonal winter salad. All the ingredients are at their peak when it’s freezing outside. This is the only ...

Lydia Gerratt

Jan 30, 2018
2 min

Lentils with feta, roast pumpkin and red onions

I am a lentil convert. I have been dragged kicking and screaming to the world of lentils. My prejudice about them has been long and deep as I found them to ...

Lydia Gerratt

Dec 27, 2017
2 min

Pancakes (crêpes)

Who loves pancakes? ‘ME’ that’s what my boys scream back when I ask what they want for breakfast at the weekend. My favourite is flavoured with some sugar an...

Lydia Gerratt

Nov 26, 2017
3 min

Thai green curry mussels and aubergine

Mussels are dominant enough in flavour to be able to take on the powerfully fragrant Thai green curry aromatics and make one of the tastiest mussel dishes I ...

Lydia Gerratt

Nov 6, 2017
2 min

Shiitake mushrooms with soy sauce and butter

This recipe is why I love hanging out with all the foodies on Instagram. Most of the people I follow are not celebrity chefs, but food lovers from all aroun...

Lydia Gerratt

Oct 21, 2017
3 min

Apple Strudel

The taste and baking aromas of apple strudel is my childhood. My mother, who originated from Montenegro, makes apple strudel in the Balkan style, we add waln...

Lydia Gerratt

Oct 6, 2017
3 min

Risotto di scampi (Prawns)

If you love that dense savoury umami flavour you get from prawns, then I urge you to make this dish. Satisfying is an understatement. The key ingredient is ...

Lydia Gerratt

Oct 3, 2017
2 min

Prawn (shrimp) and broccoli noodles

This is a Hong Kong noodle dish that my husband (who is Chinese, so you know this recipe is the real thing!) taught me. It’s one of those dishes that is hug...

Inspiring you to transform your food from bland to miraculous

ABOUT ME

Porcini mushroom and cream pasta

Lemon sole baked with butter, white wine, lemon and parsley

Toum; Lebanese garlic sauce

Tuscan vegetable bean soup

Tomato and butter pasta sauce

Cantonese style sea bass with ginger and spring onions

Faširane šnicle - pork burgers

Peas with feta, mint and lemon zest

Slow baked aubergines in a rich tomato sauce

Roast chicken salad with crisp bread, tarragon and spring onions

Turkish poached eggs with yoghurt and Aleppo pepper

Enoki (Golden needle) mushrooms with garlic, spring onion and soya sauce

Fennel, orange, black olive and caper salad

Lentils with feta, roast pumpkin and red onions

Pancakes (crêpes)

Thai green curry mussels and aubergine

Shiitake mushrooms with soy sauce and butter

Apple Strudel

Risotto di scampi (Prawns)

Prawn (shrimp) and broccoli noodles