a bowl of rice and thick orange curry, garnished with diced spring onions.
last #cookjan of the year. sweet potato and chickpea katsu. and I made a lil miso soup with tofu cubes too (not pictured)
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A box of pecan snowball biscuits (recipe in Ottolenghi's cookbook "Sweet"), placed on a red table runner with a geometric pattern that makes my composition look a lot fancier than it is. They are perfect with a black coffee or shot of espresso, which - coincidence! - is just what I have for breakfast.
I'll have you know I finally made the pecan snowballs I'd been craving since before Christmas, and just had three for breakfast, per doctor's orders. The prescription says to repeat the treatment tomorrow. #CookJan
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Lena the calico cat smelling my copy of Sweet by Ottolenghi and Helen Goh. Everyone in this house knows, by now, that I have a huge craving for pecan snowballs. This might be Lena's way to tell me to do something about it already (okay, okay, I might bake on Friday!).
The one #cookjan photo I took recently looks crap, so how about I just share some new recipes I tried:
1) Meera Sodha's Malaysian Dal Curry (loved this!): www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oc...
2) Nigella's Chicken Teriyaki www.nigella.com/recipes/chic...
I think Lena wants me to bake something next.
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A bowl of penne with duck ragu and grated Parmesan
Been very bad at sticking to my #cookjan intentions, but spent nap time yesterday making a batch of this duck ragu for the first time as something treaty but wholesome for the freezer, and it is 👌
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/vene...
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two bowls of orange-coloured soup topped with lentil, spinach and feta, and two plates of lightly-browned buttered toast.
real january hack for wfh lunches: on monday throw some canned lentils, frozen spinach, and jarred garlic into a pan for a few minutes, then all week you can sprinkle it on boring canned soup with a bit of feta or some chilli oil #cookjan
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dinnertime photos are practically impossible in january light so no evidence, but i made a big fat lasagne. mary berry's recipe with mustard in the bechamel and red currant sauce (i used leftover cranberry sauce) in the ragu. #cookjan
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a bowl of the NYT crispy gnocchi and sprouts, with bonus paprika 'chicken'.
i love when @seanmorl.com's dinner days match up with my gym days. trudging up the hill in the dark with tired legs, then remembering i'm going to be handed a bowl of something hot and delicious when i walk through the door. #cookjan
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had leftover leeks but no bread, so made basically the same thing with some risotto rice chucked in. it was so good! and we've got a wild excess of risotto rice, so please tell me your fave risotto recipes #cookjan
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a big bowl of green leeks and white beans, and a small plate with a couple of slices of buttered bread.
this is my third attempt at miso leeks and beans, a very simple dish that i managed to mess up twice. but nailed it this time #cookjan
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Two slices of fancy toasted sourdough topped with smashed avocado, mushrooms, chorizo, pickled onions, and heaps of fresh coriander. A nice enough recipe from a Waitrose recipe card that I'm not sure I'll use again - but credit to it for getting me over an end-of-week cooking slump.
Today in #CookJan: things on toast for lunch (avocado, mushrooms, chorizo and pickled onions). Wasn't sold on the tacos the recipe called for, so my version is with fancy sourdough, because why the hell not.
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Did I ever tell you how much I love "A Modern Way To Eat" by Anna Jones? I love it so much I made enough chilli to last us 5 meals, without ever having tried the recipe before. It's really nice and warming, which goes a long way in this vile wet weather. The thyme oil and chilli flakes topping rounds the flavour up really nicely (I skipped the yogurt and green chilli garnish as I wasn't in the mood for that). The recipe at the link is not the version I have in the book, as she revised it later, but sounds like she prefers the newer one anyway, so you might be in luck!
Today in #CookJan: Past Me's batch cooking keeps paying off, as I dig (again) into our huge vat of chilli from Anna Jones's A Modern Way To Eat. Served with oregano oil I kinda made up, because I'm not going outside to get fresh thyme in the rain. Recipe: annajonesfood.substack.com/p/proper-chi...
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Aubergine, pepper and tomato stew from Sabrina Ghayour's Sirocco. What you see in the photo was meant to be 3 portions, but ended up being almost 5. Plus the 2 we already ate last week. I've been in full "feeding an army" mode last week, with huge thanks from present and future me who can sit back and cook less.
Today in #CookJan: aubergine, pepper and tomato stew from @sabrinaghayour.bsky.social's Sirocco. And a truckload of it at that: it's been a huge batch cooking week since we have a guest to feed.
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Golden-topped lasagne in a ceramic dish
Lasagne on a grey plate with slices of garlic flatbread
Banana and chocolate chip muffins on a cooling rack
Lasagne! And also this week's banana muffins #cookjan
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Brown rice, chicken with coriander sauce, black beans, avocado.
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Made some lunches for the freezer as well
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This week's meal plan #cookjan
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Bowl with geometric black and white pattern on the inside. Also inside: brown stew of sausage potato carrot onion, tin of tomatoes, bit of stock, bay leaves, dried thyme.
#CookJan made a sausage potato carrot stew today
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A grey plate of 2 sausages, mash and baked beans
Sausage and mash and beans tonight, nice easy dinner after a loooong couple of days #cookjan
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Today in #CookJan: a soup that is greater than the sum of its parts. The lemon and pine nut topping is an absolute must for flavour, don't skip it if you make it.
And now, off to sorting the den of chaos my kitchen has become this week, so I can take my own pictures without shame.
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grapefruit porridge (question mark) and blueberry chia jam for breakfast #CookJan
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Today in #CookJan: experiments from the RecipeTin Eats cookbook continue. This recipe on her blog is very similar to the salmon curry we had for dinner (the one in the book uses red curry paste from a jar, which is lucky since I have one in the fridge to use up).
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More of an assembly job than a strict #cookjan, but a staple of mine: M&S rosti cakes, roasted asparagus, fried egg, chilli and peanut salsa
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a bowl of bright red-orange tomato soup, on a green-rimmed plate with a couple of slightly burned, wonky croissants.
ive been on lunches. today was very cold and icy so i pulled a classic: tinned tomato soup and those canned croissants, with garlic butter and (i think this was @quintelance.bsky.social's tip?) feta rolled into them. #CookJan
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we've had this (with quorn) for the last few nights, thanks to @seanmorl.com digging through the NYT best of 2025. idk what chemical reaction is happening in that pan but it tastes like liquid magic
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Today in #CookJan: one of the many stir fries from the RecipeTin Eats Tonight cookbook. The book has a recipe for a big batch of sauce, and many different dishes to add it to (this is chicken and mushroom). I never stir-fried anything before, and it's been one new recipe a week for over a month now.
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Was going to have leftover pie tonight but felt like cooking when I got in so made tomorrow's dinner instead and will have pie tomorrow. Spicy honey chicken thighs, rice, charred broccoli and kale 🥰 #cookjan
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Dinner was lush #cookjan
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I don't use my copy of Ottolenghi: The Cookbook often, so I made its chickpeas and spinach with honeyed sweet potato as one of my #CookJan experiments. Enjoyed it, though it's quite time-consuming (I think it would still work with canned chickpeas). No photo from me - here's a blog with the recipe.
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Much cooking to do this evening, quite looking forward to getting back into the kitchen:
Soup (for dinner)
Chicken filo pie (for dinner tomorrow and Tuesday)
Banana muffins (breakfasts)
Peri peri halloumi and roast sweet potato (work lunches)
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Tray of cooked cookies, slight browning at the edges
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The critical thing with cookies is to touch them on top and take them out BEFORE they feel like they're done
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