Carrot and Coriander – the original

Another recipe from Sarah Brown’s Vegetarian Cookbook. I’d lost mine, and years of trying to recreate gave me this. I haven’t re-tried it yet, but if her pumpkin soup recipe is anything to go by, hers will be a LOT better!

Pumpkin Soup – the original

I’d lost my copy of Sarah Brown’s “Vegetarian Cookbook”, and so her recipe for Pumpkin Soup. My version, recreated from memory, doesn’t match hers!

Her fresh grated ginger and nutmeg add a zing in the mouth that mine … lacks.

Cheese and Onion Pasty

I missed Greggs’ Cheese and Onion Pasties during lockdown. Here’s my version. No, not an exact replicas … but it satisfied an “itch”, and was good eating!

A sheet of ready-rolled puff pastry (375g) will make 4 good-sized pasties – or 6 smaller ones. But, honestly, who wants a daintier pasty?

H’s Gluten-free Dough-ball Wreath with Camembert

This worked well – good eating for all of us, wheat-eaters as well.

It’s not a “pale imitation” of a bread-based wreath; it’s different – more like a scone.

H’s Christmas beef marinade (for roughly 3 kg of beef)

Stunning!

Like all the best recipes, she tasted frequently and tweaked – adding a bit of this or a bit of that. The flavour it’s complex – you’ll get layers of taste, one after the other; first the Yemeni spice, then the cumin, then the chilli, and last the orange. Fascinating.