Pumpkin purée
Hold it, fruitcake! Back away brussel sprouts! Tis still the season to butcher a pumpkin (or rather a deliciously sweet Coquina butternut squash) and blitz it into this beautiful purée. Continue…
vegetarian
Sun blushed tomato, feta, herb and giant couscous salad jars
Give this dish a few hours between making it and eating it. The more time those bouncy grains of couscous have to soak up the lemony, garlicky dressing, the more delicious this salad becomes – making it the perfect picnic salad. You can choose which grains, beans and pulses you prefer, and if ever I have some leftover chicken, that’s worth shredding in too. Number 1 tip? Make sure you have some good quality sun-blushed tomatoes – they’re sweeter with a softer texture than sun-dried. Continue…
Lunch box day 1: Mediterranean vegetable, giant couscous and bulgar wheat salad
To begin the lunch box saga, I thought I would start with this healthy, yet satisfying, little number. You can’t go wrong with roasted vegetables, and you can use whatever veg you fancy – but these are my favourite, particularly roasted courgette. Continue…
Warm up your Spring picnic with one of these moreish risottos (sponsored post)
Move over, cheese sandwiches and sausage rolls, because this picnic is reserved for my mate risotto. Continue…
I-can’t-believe-it’s-veggie sausage roll
No, I seriously can’t believe. It looks like meat, and it tastes like meat – so how the hell is it not meat? Day four – the penultimate day – of Picknic Blog’s sausage roll week features this dazzlingly scrummy vegetarian sausage roll. In all honesty, your picnickers probably won’t notice the lack of sausage in their sausage roll. Continue…
Spice up your picnic with a spiced mango chutney
“And my chutneys and kasaundies are, after all, connected to my nocturnal scribblings — by day amongst the pickle-vats, by night within these sheets, I spend my time at the great work of preserving. Memory, as well as fruit, is being saved from the corruption of the clocks.” — Saleem Sinai in Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Writing the past and pickling fruits may well be acts of preservation, but once the finished product makes its appearance on a piece of paper or in a Kilner jar, it can be all too easily misplaced, lost, or forgotten.
What to expect from my Pick•Nic basket
Whilst eating out at your favourite restaurant is always (hopefully) enjoyable, there’s a certain etiquette you have to comply with: you sit up straight in a chair, you order, your meal arrives, you eat, you pay, you leave. Continue
