Some delicious seasonal summer family recipes to choose from the What Dad Cooked repertoire.
Gorgonzola has quite specific likes – I’ve tried to find good partners for both the dolce and piccante.
A really easy and tasty starter or light lunch or supper. Make during summer when home-grown asparagus might still be available.
‘Japanese food is pretty up market at the moment, but this succulent dish, believe it or not, uses cheap cuts of meat…’
‘Spain in a photo. Perfect for eating al fresco…’
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A perfect winter warmer – Cassoulet!
Try Dad’s loaded low-fat salsa quesadillas with The Laughing Cow Lightest x8 cheese.
An excellent way to turn a popular Italian slow food standard into an easy and quicker family classic.
My best pumpkin pie yet!
A seasonal favourite ingredient of Dad's, so much so he made a 30 recipe series about the green spears! Try these recipes whilst asparagus can still be found locally.
This recipe matches asparagus with a deconstructed puttanesca sauce. Surprisingly, this really works – the asparagus stands up well to the robust pizza flavours.
These are outrageously delicious. Serve warm as an hors d’oeuvre.
This is a spring asparagus dish – but not as we know it…
Fresh asparagus is full of flavour and goodness – the perfect vegetable to celebrate the arrival of spring. Dairy, eggs, potatoes, Parmesan and parsley all marry well with tasty asparagus and come together to create this delicious frittata recipe.
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