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Pen and Spoon
Effortless recipes and dispatches from the front line of food by award-winning food writer and cook book author Sue Quinn. Latest book: Second Helpings: delicious dishes to transform your leftovers.
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More Cheese Please!
Plus what it's like to write a single-ingredient cookbook (about cheese) and LOADS of cheese recipes.
Whole roasted halloumi, tomato rice + herby date relish
The texture of the halloumi in this wildly flavoursome dish is almost chicken-like, and by that I mean a piece of succulent chicken breast - juicy and tender. The rice is simple, with lots flavour and
Roast pumpkin and gruyere scones
These scones have a deep cheesy flavour, a tender buttery crumb, and cheering pale orange squash colour.
Fluffy cottage cheese pancakes, raspberries and maple lime syrup
These thick, tender and fluffy babies echo ricotta pancakes but are drenched in a buttery sauce spiked with maple syrup and lime juice
Potato, leek, blue cheese and honey galette
Half wholemeal spelt flour/half plain white flour pastry is a beautiful companion to the cheesy filling. Use a strong no-holds-barred blue cheese as a foil to the honey.
Blue cheese and walnut gratin dauphinois
The dish hails from the Auvergne region of France and is one for lovers of blue cheese. If you don’t happen to fall into that happy group, you could use a soft rindless goat’s cheese instead.
Cheese Please! My new book is almost here – and I’ve brought pudding
... plus an ode to goat cheese and all its wonderful uses, and the most goat cheese divine semifreddo with vanilla roasted strawberries
Why do we make food so complicated? A plate of good ingredients still counts as dinner.
... plus THREE recipes involving no (or very little) cooking: a butter bean and samphire salad, a gorgeous raw fish dish and the most moreish sweet snacks to take on a long walk or scoff anywhere.
The best ways to drink ice cream: sodas, affogato and spiders
... plus an incredibly refreshing and delicious boozy (if you wish) mocha granita