Serves
6
Dietary information
Vegetarian
Main ingredients
Almonds, bread, milk
Sourced from
The Cook’s Companion App and book
The very best Spanish sherry vinegar is the only product that will add the necessary zing to this white gazpacho. It is worth stripping the peel from the grapes for this lovely dish.
Makes
20 slices (5 cm x 4 cm)
Main ingredients
Honey, almonds
Sourced from
The Cook’s Companion App and book
I sometimes include finely chopped candied angelica or glacé fruit in the topping.
This tart is based on a recipe in The Art of Cookery, written by an English cook, Hannah Glasse, in the eighteenth century.
Serves
6
Dietary information
Gluten-free, vegetarian
Main ingredient
Asparagus
Sourced from
The Cook’s Companion App and book
As the asparagus is not cooked for very long, each spear must be trimmed thoroughly of its woody end – there should be no trace of stringiness, and the total weight of the tender spears should not exceed 200 g.
Serves
4
Dietary information
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Main ingredients
Beetroot, avocado, spinach
Sourced from
The Cook’s Companion App and book
This salad looks like a Bonnard painting – all hot pink and sharp green and sunny yellow – and tastes great! Variations are endless: pine nuts, grapefruit, crumbled fetta, potato crisps, to name a few. Proportions are never fixed in a salad like this. It is more important to relax and enjoy its assembly.
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