Type: Simple Only

Steamed courgettes with garlic and oregano
Try to get small and young courgettes for this if you can: their tenderness is heaven when steamed. I love the thin…
Crushed courgettes
This is lovely either as it is (or with a spoonful of yoghurt), as part of a mezze spread, or served alongside…

Roasted aubergine with anchovies and oregano
Anchovies and aubergine might sound like an unlikely combination but it’s one that really works. The anchovies bring more of a salty…

Roasted aubergine with curried yoghurt
All the various components of this dish can be prepared a day in advance, if you want to get ahead. Keep all…
Gem lettuce with fridge-raid dressing
This started off as a clear-up of all the herbs Tara had lying around in her fridge that needed using up (but…

Cucumber and lamb’s lettuce salad
It can be easy to get a bit set in your ways with salad dressing. Ringing the changes a little – as…

Watermelon, green apple and lime salad
This is delicious as it is – it screams summer, it screams virtuous and it definitely screams delicious – but some salt-roasted…

5-spice peach and raspberry salad
You don’t want this salad to be too sweet, so for the best results start with peaches that are not too ripe….

Burrata with chargrilled grapes and basil
Burrata – which means ‘buttered’ in Italian – is one of life’s great pleasures. The outside is firm mozzarella, the inside an…