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Apple and Oat Muffins
Packed with good stuff, these not-too-sweet muffins are an appetising way to start the day. They’re best fresh, so you might like to bake...
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Arancini Patties
If you have some leftover risotto, one of the most delicious things you can do with it is transform it into these Italian-style fried rice...
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Banana bread
This fragrant, gently spiced tea bread is a true pick-me-up perfect for ravenous children returning from school, or anyone in need of...
Prep 30mins Cook 45mins
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Barley, onion, tomato
A wonderfully hearty soup, this is also very straightforward. It relies on some good puréed tomatoes for the base flavour. We prepare our...
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Beans, olives, mozzarella
This is a very unusual pizza. There are no tomatoes forming a moist ‘under-layer’; there aren’t even any onions. Instead, the dough is...
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Beans, tomatoes, olive oil
This is a super-simple soup with Italian overtones. Make it in the summer or autumn with good, ripe, flavourful tomatoes.
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Beef with mustardy lentils and mint
This works as a portable lunchbox, picnic dish, or as part of a cold-cuts lunch or buffet spread.
Cook 40mins
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Bread and butter pudding
If you don't like bread and butter pudding, the chances are that you've never had one that's been made properly. This recipe should change...
Prep 20mins Cook 30mins
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Butternut Squash Hummus with Dukka
A delicious starter or snack, great for dinner parties.
Prep 10mins Cook 40mins
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Cabbage, avocado, lentils
This unusual combination works superbly. It has become a favourite lunch, and I would happily serve it as a dinner party starter too. It’s...
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Cannellini bean and leek soup with chilli oil
The chilli oil gives this soup a deliciously piquant finish. Once made, the oil will keep, sealed in an airtight container in the fridge...
Prep 10mins
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Carrot and apricot breakfast bars
These can be kept in the fridge for a few days, ready to provide an instant healthy breakfast or snack. They’re packed with raw carrot...
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Celeriac soup
Take advantage of the lovely taste of celeriac and a range of seasonal vegetables with this hearty warming soup.
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Chard and new potato curry
This hearty curry is fantastic in late summer or early autumn. If you want to make it ahead of time and refrigerate or freeze it, leave out...
Prep 15mins Cook 20mins
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Chickpea, chard and porcini soup
This is a really lovely, hearty, big-flavoured soup, underpinned by the earthiness of porcini mushrooms. You could use tinned white beans...
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Chocolate, fruit, nuts/seeds
Hugh can’t claim to be the first to have mingled chocolate with dried fruit and something nutty, but he does think these simple treats are...
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Chocolate, ginger, digestives
This is a very simple ‘tiffin’, or chocolate ‘refrigerator cake’. It’s one of the easiest chocolate treats you can make and endlessly...
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Chorizo & tomato instant noodles in a pot
Instant noodles needn't be the processed stuff. With a bit of imagination, these chorizo and tomato instant noodles in a pot are just as...
Prep 2mins Cook 6mins
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Classic Scones
Of course you can put what you like on your scones, but I’ll usually opt for a cream tea. Cream tea etiquette is fiercely disputed in the...
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Courgette and rice filo pie
This is based on an intriguing, delicious Greek dish that Hugh found in a battered old copy of Mediterranean Vegetable Cookery by Rena...
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Curried sweet potato soup
This is a warming soup for a cold evening, the heat of the spices softened by the sweetness of the coconut milk and lime.
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DIY pot noodles
We first experimented with these when Hugh was looking at ways to improve workday lunches. However, the concept works equally well as a...
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Dundee cake
The Dundee cake proudly bears a wreath of golden almonds, like an insignia, denoting its authority in the fruit cake world. Its origins are...
Prep 30mins
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Eggy bread
More elegantly known as French toast, this makes a filling breakfast. Serve it plain, or with a dusting of cinnamon, some fruit and perhaps...
Prep 2mins Cook 4mins
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Flapjacks
Soft and chewy or crisp and crunchy, as you prefer, flapjacks are one of the all-time greats lunchtime or teatime, a good flapjack is...
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Flatbreads
We love these wonderful, soft but slightly charred, yeast-free breads (also known as soft tortillas). I could eat a whole pile of them, hot...
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Frittata
You can customise this recipe to your hearts content. Almost any cooked vegetable can go in, from spring broccoli through summer peas...
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Fruit, nut and honey bars
Judging by the number of different energy bars on the market these days, we all ought to be bursting with vitality and joie de vivre. This...
Prep 15mins Cook 30mins
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Herby Apple Barley
Barley works brilliantly as an alternative grain to rice. This aromatics of the herbs and the sweet, sharpness of the apple works...
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Honey and peanut butter booster bars
These jam-packed near relatives of the flapjack are Hugh's antidote to the devil's work - those big-brand 'energy' bars that fester among...
Prep 20mins Cook 30mins
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