Author: Sam
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Sweet potato and goat's cheese balls
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The challenge with “meatballs” containing spinach and sweet potato is most definitely the moisture. Squeezing the wilted spinach well is obviously required. But the potato is trickier. Leaving the mashed…
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Spaghetti Bolognese
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What a boring thing to be documenting… Well yes, but let’s be honest, Spaghetti Bolognese is almost everyone’s favourite and refining the house recipe is a truly noble cause. And…
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Grilled polenta and veggie mess
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Concocted from the left-overs of the previous night’s polenta, poured into a tray while still hot and left to cool then sliced into adorable triangles. The general consensus is that…
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Polenta and pickled roots
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I was somewhat nonplussed by the individual parts of this recipe as I was cooking. The polenta was fine, albeit uninspiring; roast pickled veg wasn’t blowing my mind; and the…
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Gnocchi and Dolcellate bake
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Artery clogging indulgence. Extremely nice, although rather longer in the oven to really brown up was required in this case, I think. A slight tweak might be to add a…
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Chicken skewers, tomato and spinach salsa and pea chutney
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This is a triumph, honestly. I’m continually impressed by the recipes in The Doctor’s Kitchen, they are always so well considered and packed with flavour. This was done exactly as…
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Beetroot, Carrot and Soba
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There’s no accompanying picture in the recipe to this gothic looking dish, so I can’t confirm whether it’s supposed to look quite so dramatic. However any such treatment of beetroot…
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Spiced Cauliflower Soup
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This is a lovely warming soup, quick, easy and cheap to make in bulk. Perhaps I’d turn down the heat a notch, but then on another day this could easily…
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Slow-cooked Sausage Casserole
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This is an unbelievably simple recipe, with only 5 ingredients in the casserole. There is no depth of flavour here in truth, there are certainly modifications you could make to…
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Turkey Schnitzel
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This whole thing was a powerful collection of flavours, picked chillies and artichoke hearts, anchovies and capers. They ride close to the edge, but it’s delicious and really brought all…