Lydia Gerratt
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...
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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.
Lydia Gerratt
Mar 7, 20182 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...
Lydia Gerratt
Feb 27, 20181 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...
Lydia Gerratt
Nov 6, 20172 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...
Lydia Gerratt
Oct 3, 20172 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...
Lydia Gerratt
Sep 20, 20173 min
Want to know how to cook juicy tender chargrilled squid?
You need 3 things; super fresh squid, a cast iron frying pan and a lot of heat. I get up at the crack of dawn a couple of times a year...
Lydia Gerratt
Sep 6, 20173 min
Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on sourdough toast
Every now and again the stars align and by some miracle I have a pack of Burford Brown eggs, a few slices of smoked salmon in the fridge...
Lydia Gerratt
Jul 19, 20171 min
Swiss chard with garlic and extra virgin olive oil
Sometimes you see a lovely looking vegetable in the supermarket and wonder which is the best way to cook it. This is a super simple...
Lydia Gerratt
Jun 23, 20173 min
Spaghetti con cozze e gamberi (with mussels and prawns)
This is the pasta dish that is on every menu in those little Italian cafés that are right on the beach in Italy. It tastes phenomenal....
Lydia Gerratt
May 21, 20173 min
Chicken schnitzel on a green lettuce and herb salad
To bash or not to bash the hell out of the chicken? I’ve tried both ways and I think that a very light bashing works the best with...
Lydia Gerratt
Mar 27, 20172 min
Eggs, peppers and tomatoes
I’m a very boring breakfast person. I always have very strong coffee with lots of full fat milk and sugar, white sourdough bread toasted...
Lydia Gerratt
Mar 6, 20172 min
Prawn, chorizo and pea pasta
The flavours in this dish are incredible. Chorizo and prawns are like the best of friends, they get on so well together and the peas,...
Lydia Gerratt
Mar 1, 20172 min
Seared organic chicken livers with pomegranate molasses
Pomegranate molasses is a wonder. It has the most amazing sweet, very sour, fragrant flavour and as it’s so sticky, just the right...
Lydia Gerratt
Feb 12, 20172 min
Potato leek soup
We are truly in the depths of winter, London has been freezing for weeks now and the only thing that warms me up is this soup, very...
Lydia Gerratt
Jan 13, 20172 min
Breakfast burritos
This is such a brilliant breakfast recipe; eggs, red peppers, spring onions, tomatoes, jalapenos and cheese all wrapped up in flat bread....
Lydia Gerratt
Jan 4, 20172 min
Cannellini beans, fresh spinach, rosemary, chilli and lemon
I found this recipe in Jamie Oliver’s ‘Jamie at Home’ cookbook but I’ve changed it slightly to use fresh spinach instead of rainbow chard....
Lydia Gerratt
Dec 24, 20162 min
Stir fry Chinese oyster mushrooms and spring onions
My husband is from Hong Kong and whenever he makes dinner for us he always cooks at least two vegetable dishes to go with all the other...
Lydia Gerratt
Dec 13, 20162 min
Salmon fillets with leeks, capers and lemon
The ingredients in this recipe are so achingly in season that even the food glitterati would be impressed. I actually ate this at the...
Lydia Gerratt
Dec 5, 20163 min
Pan fried sea bass fillets
Sea bass is a beautiful fish. The fillets are perfect for frying and have an almost creamy flavour with a lovely thin crispy skin. When...
Lydia Gerratt
Nov 29, 20162 min
Portobello mushrooms with garlic, parsley and butter on sourdough toast
This is one of the tastiest and most lovely ways to cook with mushrooms when they are at their best during the autumn season. And, it’s...
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