Taryn Das NevesThe Ginger & White Cookbook (Mitchell Beazley, R313) This cookbook comes from the homely kitchens of artisan coffee bar and restaurant, Ginger & White, in London. With a focus on a decent cuppa and food for sharing and laughing over together, it’s hard to find a recipe you won’t like! Whether it’s soft-boiled eggs (topped with knitted hats) and toast soldiers, garlic and fennel slowroasted pork baps or gluten-free chocolate mud cake, this is casual dining at its finest. Highlight: If you’re a carrot cake addict, don’t miss their recipe with lashings of cream cheese icing! Available at…
Taryn Das NevesA Change of Appetite (Octopus, R400) Diana Henry has embarked on a mission to discover flavourful, healthier recipes. What follows are mouth-watering meals with Middle Eastern…
Taryn Das NevesA Homegrown Table (Random House, R330) MasterChef Australia 2013 winner, Emma Dean, goes back to basics and focuses on fresh, organic produce to eat with friends and family. With an emphasis on seasonality, foraging and growing your own vegetables, the recipes are humble and delicious – pork and fennel meatballs with risoni, and barbecued quail with heirloom tomato salad, to name a few. Highlight: Broken into lovely sections such as ‘Tea Time’ and ‘Sun Down’. Available at Exclusive Books.
Taryn Das NevesMorito (Random House, R525) The cookbook to come out of Morito restaurant in Exmouth Market, London, which serves tapas and meze-styled meals. The menu and team…
With the soft and silky texture that an avocado has, it is perfect against the salty and toasted flavours of the bacon and cauliflower. Cook’s tip: This avocado mousse topped with cauliflower and bacon crumbs is best served as individual starters. Serve the mousse in pretty glasses with long spoons. You can also serve it in a big dish as a spread or dip for guests to help themselves to.
This roasted garlic, cauliflower and Gruyère soup is the perfect creamy, comfort soup for cold winter days. Cook’s tip: it can also be made with purple cauliflower or…
Print Recipe Reef-style squid ink garganelli Serves: 6 Cooking Time: 1 hour Ingredients 1 quantity squid ink pasta dough Sauce 60ml (¼ cup) olive oil 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 red chilli, seeded and thinly sliced 2 x 410g tins chopped tomatoes 200ml dry white wine 300g mussels 200g prawns, shelled and deveined 200g calamari
Print Recipe Farfalle with saffron, spring onion and zucchini Serves: 6 Cooking Time: 2 hours Ingredients 1 quantity basic pasta dough Sauce 40g butter 15ml (1 tbsp) olive oil 6 purple spring onions, thinly sliced 1 garlic clove, crushed 4 zucchini (baby marrows), thinly sliced salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 60ml (¼
Print Recipe Truffled pappardelle carbonara Serves: 6 Cooking Time: 1 hour Ingredients 1 quantity porcini pasta dough Sauce 30ml (2 tbsp) olive oil 30g (2 tbsp) butter 125g pancetta or diced bacon 1 garlic clove, crushed 4 eggs 4 egg yolks 80g Parmesan, freshly grated + extra, to serve 250ml (1 cup) fresh cream 45ml
Print Recipe Beetroot panzerotti with garlic butter, pecorino and poppy seeds Serves: 6 Cooking Time: 1 hour Ingredients 1 quantity basic pasta dough Filling 130g cooked beetroot 250g ricotta 1 egg 100g pecorino, freshly grated + extra, to serve 80ml breadcrumbs a pinch of ground nutmeg salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste Sauce
Print Recipe Roast pumpkin and ricotta pasta roll with sage butter Serves: 6 – 8 Cooking Time: 1 hour 120 mins Ingredients 4 fresh pasta sheets (15cm x 30cm) as per spinach pasta recipe 2 x 30cm x 60cm muslin cloths kitchen string Filling 1kg diced pumpkin 45ml (3 tbsp) olive oil salt and freshly
Take your simple ingredients, add a whole lot of love and you’ve got fresh pasta, one of the world’s most gratifying dishes – whichever shape or flavour it…