LPK recipes
Cheesy leek tart
Easy, cheesy and really tasty. An ideal weeknight dinner. I went full fancy and chopped up my own potatoes for wedges to accompany, but a bag of McCain’s would do the job, ya know?
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Listen, I know I’m supposed to wang on forever about how I discovered this recipe in Brooklyn in ’07. But I have never actually been to New York. I was meant to go, this one time. Hurricane Sandy happened so I went to Paris instead. Anyway, this is a recipe for a delicious cream cheese […]
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Saag paneer
I know I’m supposed to tell you that this recipe was etched on to a banana leaf for me by some village elder in the remote backwaters of Kerala, but that would be a lie. It is a curry that I made one evening when dinner needed to be on the table fast. And it […]
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Pumpkin and thyme tart
This tart is a riff of a basic I have been cooking since I started catering; a shamelessly shop-bought pastry case full of vegetables and a quiche like filling. Sometimes there is cheese, sometimes there is spice, there is always delicious. They seem to be popular with the resident toddler, but most importantly of all, […]
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Quick sausage & butter bean stew
Everybody in the world seemed to have an opinion and advice about weaning my tiny baby onto solid food; there was less information out there for this stage, a year on, where that tiny baby is, well, a little less tiny and has actual opinions and things. I mean, it hasn’t really come as a […]
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Lemon & thyme roast chicken
I have learned that a roast chicken is one of Mr P’s love languages. Srsly. Unfortunately I always forget this fact until I actually roast a chicken, and he starts voluntarily doing The Crap Jobs We Both Hate and hanging out washing and all sorts of things. I mean, I could probably use roasting a […]
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Pan con tomate
I really, really, really hate the fact that pretty much everything essential to being a vaguely content and functioning individual is now an aspirational video on some kind of social media. A quick jump into the shower with whatever shower gel was on offer that floated my boat (always, always, always the citrus smelling ones […]
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Sweetcorn fritters
I promise not to wang on so much that you have to scroll for a solid five minutes just to get to the actual recipe, but sweetcorn fritters were the first thing I made for a breakfast club. It was quite pioneering, way back when, the breakfast club. I mean, avocados weren’t quite such a […]
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