February Dish of the Month - Cooking with Nigel Slater

We had an incredible start to Dish of the Month in January, a big thank you from me and Sue at A little bit of heaven on a plate to all who took part.  The full round up of the recipes from January can be seen HERE.

 Dish of the Month is a blog event to celebrate the recipes of the generous and charming, Nigel Slater. I'm cooking my way month by month through The kitchen diaries II, however you can make any dish from any of Nigel's books or use the online recipes. The full rules are shown below.


For my February Dish of the Month I have chosen Nigel's Little apricot and oat cakes which he describes as "a cake with backbone, not to mention an interesting texture which comes from rolled oats and dried apricots".  The recipe is in the February chapter of The Kitchen Diaries II and I can highly recommend these little cakes, they are proper little buns and the finely chopped apricots and peel that they contain give them a nice tangy flavour.  They keep very well in a plastic container too.



If you would like to take part, then please:

• Make a Dish of the Month from ANY recipe by Nigel Slater
• Link to Farmersgirl Kitchen or A Little Bit of Heaven on a Plate
•  Use the Dish of the Month logo in your post
• If you use twitter, tweet your post with @serialcrafter or @Heavenona_plate and #DishoftheMonth and we will re-tweet it to our followers. 

Rules:

• If you own The kitchen diaries II please do not publish the recipes on your blog without permission, they are copyright.
• If you are using recipes from the BBC Food website, please link to the recipe on BBC Food rather than publishing the recipe.  Likewise recipes on the Guardian Lifestyle website.
• One entry per blog.
• Recipes must be added to the linky by the 28th of each month.

 Add your Dish of the Month to the linky below:

Labels: BBC Food, Dish of the Month, Guardian Lifestyle, Little apricot and oat cakes, Nigel Slater, The kitchen diaries II

posted by Janice @ 08:00 13 Comments

Dish of the Month - January 2013

It was such a pleasure to watch Nigel Slater cook in 'Dish of the Day' on BBC 1 before Christmas, and I did go on about it rather a lot, so it was probably not surprising, but very pleasing, to receive The kitchen diaries II as a Christmas present.  I have dipped into this delicious book and found so many recipes that I would like to make that I thought I would create an 'event' to make sure sure that I do!  It's not a formal, black tie sort of event, that would never do for Nigel, it's more of an informal  invitation to drop in and join me once a month to share some home cooking.

My Dish of the Month for January is 'a soup of bacon and celeriac' from page 7 of The kitchen diairies II


This was a very simple soup to make, just the thing for a cold January day.  The most challenging part of the recipe is grating the celeriac.  But that is easy enough if you use of a food processor.  The flavour of the soup is subtle but with a mustardy kick.  It would be great served with a slice of baguette floating on top,  loaded with melted grated cheese.

Sue at Heaven on a Plate is also a fan of the TV programmes and The kitchen diaries, and will be joining me in cooking a 'Dish of the Month' from Nigel's recipes. If you would like to take part, you don't even have to own the book as you can cook anything by Nigel Slater.  You can access 56 recipes from 'Dish of the Day' on the BBC Food website. There are also many recipes from Nigel's regular column on The Guardian website.

The kitchen diaries II is divided by month and I plan to cook a dish from each month in that month, but that isn't compulsory either, you can pick and choose however you like.

If you would like to take part, then please:

• Make a Dish of the Month from ANY recipe by Nigel Slater
• Link to Farmersgirl Kitchen or A Little Bit of Heaven on a Plate
•  Use the Dish of the Month logo in your post
• If you use twitter, tweet your post with @serialcrafter or Heavenona_plate and #DishoftheMonth and we will re-tweet it to our followers. 

Rules:

• If you own The kitchen diaries II please do not publish the recipes on your blog without permission, they are copyright.
• If you are using recipes from the BBC Food website, please link to the recipe on BBC Food rather than publishing the recipe.  Likewise recipes on the Guardian website.
• One entry per blog.
• Recipes must be added to the linky by the 28th of each month.

 Add your Dish of the Month to the linky below:

Labels: A little bit of Heaven on a Plate, BBC Food, Dish of the Month, Nigel Slater, The Guardian, The kitchen diaries II

posted by Janice @ 20:06 36 Comments