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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.
Bistro style roast chicken legs with potatoes, garlic and rosemary
I have made this recipe a lot this year and each time I’ve put these few simple ingredients together, I’ve tweaked them to make it taste...
Lydia Gerratt
Dec 31, 20203 min read
Lydia Gerratt
Jan 2, 20203 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Mar 27, 20192 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Mar 26, 20193 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Feb 15, 20193 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Feb 11, 20193 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Dec 5, 20183 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Sep 20, 20183 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Jun 15, 20182 min read
Slow baked aubergines in a rich tomato sauce (Imam Bayildi)
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...
Lydia Gerratt
May 27, 20183 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Apr 16, 20183 min read
Turkish 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...
Lydia Gerratt
Mar 17, 20182 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Mar 7, 20182 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Feb 27, 20181 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Jan 30, 20182 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Dec 27, 20172 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Nov 26, 20173 min read
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...
Lydia Gerratt
Nov 6, 20172 min read
Apple Strudel
The taste and baking aromas of apple strudel is my childhood. My mother, who originated from Montenegro, makes apple strudel in the...
Lydia Gerratt
Oct 21, 20173 min read
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....
Lydia Gerratt
Oct 6, 20173 min read
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