summer – Lauren Gemmell

Strawberry Tart Recipe

On 22nd May 2013

Last August I made a batch of 4 strawberry tarts. It’s taken me a while to write them up 🙂

I’ve always loved a fresh cream strawberry tart, topped with that gloopy sweet glaze and fresh strawberries (that haven’t been frozen first).

When looking for Strawberry tart recipes getting the proper glaze was the hardest part, as they are almost always listed as jam / preserve based glaze. This is not what I had from local bakeries growing up, and was never going to replace my Tesco strawberry tart habit!

Lemony Lentil Soup

By lauren

On 6th August 2011

In Recipes

I haven’t made soup in a long time, it never seems right to make soup in the summer. However I keep getting so many carrots in my vegetable box that I am running out of ideas of how to use them all up. I felt it would be a good start to the weekend to crack on with some cooking, before I get too hungry and pop round to one of the amazing cafes round the corner instead.

I decided to make a simple lentil and carrot soup but keep it light and summery.

Indian Lamb Chops with Butternut Squash Salad

By lauren

On 20th September 2010

In Dinner

A week last Tuesday I got Nigella’s latest recipe book Kitchen: Recipes from the heart of the home.

You can win a copy of this recipe book by filling in the How do you use food blogs questionnaire. More details on the questionnaire and giveaway here.

It’s been ages since I got a new recipe book so I was really excited. I eagerly flipped through the pages, until I got to this recipe, then I stopped.

Blackened Chinese Chicken Salad

By lauren

On 7th July 2010

In Dinner

Each week I get a lettuce in my organic veggie box, so much so that it feels like we have a never ending supply of the strange purple tinged slightly bitter lettuce.

Mexican Vegetable Burgers

By lauren

On 15th August 2009

In Dinner

Going away a lot and meeting up with friends is all good – but it sure mucks with your ability to use up the vegetables in your weekly delivery!

I’ve been taking some long weekends away (in Liverpool last week) and going out for dinner a lot recently, with old high school friends, university friends and family. Since I do most of my cooking on the weekends (The Other Half does week days) being away makes it really difficult to use up all the produce I am sent. Sure I could just cancel the next box – but where’s the fun in that?

So I have been scouring Twitter and FoodBuzz for recipes that use lots of interchangeable vegetables. When I found this recipe for Mexican burgers.

Mexican burger with tomato and broad bean salsa

Individual Summer Pudding

By lauren

On 31st July 2009

In Bread, Cakes and Desserts

I’ll tell you a secret, until this very night I have never tasted the somewhat strange combination of stale bread and summer fruits that makes up one of Britain’s most loved desserts.

Over the past few months the need to finally try this dessert has come over me slowly. It started with the Great British Menu, a TV show that highlights modern twists on some of our favourite british foods. With James Sommerin’s Summer Pudding Trifle and to a lesser extent Nigel Haworth’s Summer Fruit Pudding.

Now that the summer fruits are finally available, and the weather (albeit briefly and in amongst thunder storms) is getting better, the need has become stronger.

Summer Pudding served with Creme Fraiche

What to do with a Kohlrabi

By lauren

On 6th July 2009

In Recipes

It only took one Kohlrabi to turn me into a Kohlrabi fan, but one year on I finally have my second Kohlrabi.

Strawberries, Blueberries with Vanilla Ice Cream topped with Scottish Tablet

By lauren

On 27th June 2009

In Cakes and Desserts, Scottish Food

Now that you have all made your first batch of Scottish Tablet you might be wondering to do with your wonderful slabs of sugary gold. Or if you haven’t made it yet maybe you are looking for another nudge in the right direction.

Strawberry Blueberry Tablet and Vanilla Ice Cream

Nudge! Strawberry and Blueberries with Vanilla Ice Cream topped with Tablet

What to do with Broad Beans

By lauren

On 19th June 2009

In Dinner

This week in my Organic Vegetable box I got 14 Broad Bean pods. The suggestion in the box was Crushed Broad Beans and Mint Bruschetta but I opted for Broad Bean and Bacon Risotto instead.

Broad Bean and Bacon Risotto

Leek and Mushroom Quiche

By lauren

On 2nd June 2009

In Dinner

Yesterday I found a new food blog Smitten Kitchen I am sure you have all been reading it for years… I then found it again when I did a search for “Leek Quiche” this morning. I am starting to branch out of my cooking and baking comfort zone and what better way to start than with a summer quiche!

I loved the look of this Leek and Mushroom Quiche and decided to give it a go.

Leek and Mushroom Quiche, straight from the oven

Lauren Gemmell

Food, Fitness, and Technology

Tag: summer (Page 1 of 2)

Strawberry Tart Recipe

Lemony Lentil Soup

Indian Lamb Chops with Butternut Squash Salad

Blackened Chinese Chicken Salad

Mexican Vegetable Burgers

Individual Summer Pudding

What to do with a Kohlrabi

Strawberries, Blueberries with Vanilla Ice Cream topped with Scottish Tablet

What to do with Broad Beans

Leek and Mushroom Quiche

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