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The very simple recipes are usually the ones I ignore in cooking magazines, so to redress the balance I made one of Olive’s 30 Minute Meals, the “Steak with Spanish Tomato Salad”.
As I was only cooking for one I halved the meat portion, buying a very nice piece of Argentinean organic sirloin steak. Fresh coriander, […]

December was the season for salmon recipes in UK food magazines – it seemed everyone had to have at least a couple. One of the more interesting was served up in Delicious: Jill Dupleix’s Beetroot-cured Salmon. Here are my test results for her recipe.

Beetroot-cured Salmon
Serves 6 as a starter or makes 12 Canapés
Takes 15 minutes […]

For me, the best type of Christmas is a beautifully sunny day, clear blue skies, and my family eating dinner around the picnic table in the garden, shaded underneath the grape arbor. Happily enough, Christmas just past was one of those days. Bizarre though the setting and season might seem to those in the northern […]

Warmest congratulations to UK foodbloggers Jeanne of Cook Sister!, Johanna of The Passionate Cook, and Though Small it is Tasty - all leaping from ether to hardcopy fame with their listing in Olive’s “Five Best Foodblogs” article in their February issue, as selected by food writer Tim Hayward of Fire and Knives. Venturing further afield, […]

The second canapé recipe I tried from Olive’s December issue advertised the same time requirements as the aforementioned Prosciutto & Cranberry Stuffing Balls. The time estimate was a lot more accurate for this recipe however, and the results were in a totally different class:

Parmesan Parsnip Twiglets
45 minutes
These can be made ahead and reheated. They’re not […]

December’s Olive offered a slew of inventive canapé recipes and I decided to test them out by trying a couple of differing complexity, but similar advertised time requirements. I seldom follow recipes, but for this I stuck religiously to the instructions – here are the results, taste-test reactions and my conclusions on the first recipe:

Prosciutto […]

Greetings from the UK and best wishes for the festive season to you all! My name’s Christina Nevin and I’ll be covering what’s hot, cold and lukewarm in the magazine food press from this part of the world for “The Paper Palate”. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me.
“Olive” December 2005 […]