Lucy's Friendly Foods101 recipes
Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
English spring garden salad
You know that phrase used in American burger restaurants ‘take a walk through the garden’? Well, this is the elegant, English equivalent re-imagined onto your plate.
Tapenade couscous salad
I’ve had a recent hankering for all things olive – I developed a taste for olives only in my mid-twenties and it was definitely a slow burner – starting off with eating one off a …
Mustardy potato and green bean salad
It’s still Jersey Royal season, and I’m determined to use this wonderful seasonal produce as much as possible, while it’s still at its best.
Vegetarian Paella Salad
Do you match wine? I’m no wine expert, although I do certainly enjoy a nice chilled glass of white or rose, but I’ve recently started to notice how some wines compliment and some wines …
Caprese Tomato Pasta Salad
We seem to live off salad in the summer – to me there is not much more delightful than an array of stunning salads to dive into on a warm sunny day.
Rainbow Salad Platter
Do you struggle to get your children to eat salad? It used to be a real problem for us – while I could easily live off salad, my children weren’t keen; other than happily wolfing down b…
Cannellini bean and olive salad
As you might imagine we have a lot of beans being used in this household at the moment – I’ve got to get the chickpea/bean water from somewhere for all the meringue based recipes! This …
Punchy parsnip soup
It’s all about the roots! Winters equals root vegetables, and as Chritmas approaches the parsnips are filling the supermarket shelves, begging to be used.
Cauliflower cocktail, aka veggie ‘prawn’ cocktail
There’s something about the festive season, that despite a ridiculous over abundance of food, there is compulsion to have a starter as well.
Curried lentil (Dhal) Soup
Lentil soup reminds me of being off school as a child and eating a steaming bowlful, balanced on a tray whilst watching trashy daytime TV – pure cosy comfort! I’d also call this recipe …
Mango Chutney Crackers
I don’t know where this idea came from, it just pretty much popped into my head when I was thinking of making my curried lentil soup the other day.
‘Sunday roast’ salad with mint sauce vinaigrette
Sometime you just really fancy a flavour combination, and the other day I really hankered after a flavour I haven’t had for many years – roast potatoes with mint sauce.
Antipasti Jewelled Couscous
Fluffy couscous salad, studded with rich antipasti and pistachios (if you can tolerate them) is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
Coronation Rice Salad
I don’t know about you, but for us June and early July heralds peak picnic and barbecue season.
Bahn Mi Salad
I’ve had this idea of turning Classic Bahn Mi baguette filling flavours into a salad for quite a while, and now the weather has turned super hot (albeit briefly!) it’s the perfec…
Mediterranean Bean Salad
Yay for sunshine, yay for summer and yay for the great outdoors! June and July are peak picnic time of year for us, the diary is littered with sports days, festivals, outdoor theatre showing…
Noodle Salad
Happy New Year! I wish you and your loved ones a very happy and healthy 2019 :-) To kickstart a fresh new start, here’s a delightfully tasty noodle salad which is perfect for a tasty lunch as…
Cucumber and Rice Noodle Salad
I don’t know about you, but when we’re all at home (and obviously thanks to Covid-19 that is ALL the time right now) I struggle with lunch ideas the most.
Spicy Tomato and Rice Soup
I don’t know about you but I find lunches the most difficult meal to cater for, especially right now where we’re all at home all the time, we have differing timetables and differing ide…