Jan 04 2008
The Challenge
This blog exists largely to allow me to document my progress through a year long challenge:
to choose a cookery book – any one you like, as long as it’s not a tiny cookery pamphlet or Larousse Gastronomique – and prepare every single recipe in it before December 31st 2008
where the book which I have chosen is Nigella Express (Chatto and Windus, 2007). For the purposes of documentation, here are listed all the recipes in this no-so-slim tome. I don’t include recipe details in my actual posts, partly to keep things easier on the eye, but also because the recipes are in her book, and also because a good number of them are freely available on the BBC food website Nigella Express section- easy really!
Recipe counter: 190 down, 0 to go!
The keen-eyed among you will have noticed that the total has changed. It seems we miscounted and there are 190 recipes not 189. Oops.
Everyday Easy
- Smoked Cod and Cannellini
- Anglo-Asian Lamb Salad
- Salmon Escalopes with Watercress, Sugar-Snap Peas and Avocado
- Mustard Pork Chops
- Turkey Fillets with Anchovy, Gherkin and Dill, and
- Mustard Caper Sauce for Broccoli
- Red Prawn and Mango Curry
- Quick Calamari with Garlic Mayonnaise
- Naan Pizza
- Roast Poussin and Sweet Potatoes
- Caramel Croissant Pudding
- Rhubarb and Custard Gelato
- Butterscotch Fruit Fondue – As a Proper Pudding (Mini Trial Run)
Workday Winners
- Prawns with Maryam Zaira Sauce
- Crab and Avocado Salad with Japanese Dressing
- Saké Sea Bass and Wilted Greens
- Brandied-Bacony Chicken
- Potato and Mushroom Gratin
- Steak Slice with Lemon and Thyme
- Seared Salmon with Singapore Noodles
- Layered Salad with Roast Quail
- Eton Mess
- Caribbean Creams
- Flourless Chocolate Brownies, and
- Hot Chocolate Sauce
- Blackberry Crisp
- Chocolate Mint Cookies
Retro Rapido
- Avocado Crayfish Cocktail
- Smoked Trout Pâté
- Chef’s Salad
- Oeufs en Cocotte
- Mouclade
- Chicken Liver Salad
- Cheese Fondue
- Goujons of Sole with Dill Mayonnaise
- Crêpes Suzette
- Mango Split
- Cherry Cheesecake
- Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Get Up and Go
- Go Get ‘Em Smoothie
- Chopped Fruit Salad
- Breakfast Bruschetta
- Home-made Instant Pancake Mix, and
- Blueberry Syrup for Pancakes
- Breakfast Bars
- Pear and Ginger Muffins
- Chocolate Croissants
- Orange French Toast
- Green Eggs and Ham
- Frittata Party!
- Croque Monsieur Bake
Quick Quick Slow
- Maple Chicken ‘n’ Ribs
- Crispy Duck
- Lamb, Olive and Caramelised Onion Tagine
- Lamb Shanks with Beans
- Coq au Riesling
- Swedish Salmon
- Sweet and Sour Cucumber Salad
- Warm Potato Salad
- Gravlax Sashimi
- Moonblush Tomatoes, and
- Slow-Roast Tomatoes, Goat’s Cheese and Mint Salad 1 2
- Lazy Loaf
- No Churn Pomegranate Ice Cream Part One Part Two
- Irish Cream Tiramisu Part One Part Two
- Forgotten Pudding
Against The Clock
- Flash-Fried Steak with White Bean Mash
- Chicken Schnitzel with Bacon and White Wine
- High-Speed Hamburger with Fast Fries
- Gammon Steaks with Parsley
- Mirin-Glazed Salmon
- Tuna Steaks with Black Beans
- Scallops and Chorizo
- Chickpeas With Rocket and Sherry
- Nectarine and Blueberry Galette
- Instant Chocolate Mousse
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Sundae
Instant Calmer
- Chowder with Asian Flavours
- Noodle Soup for Needy People
- Butternut and Sweet Potato Soup
- Rib-Sticking Stir-Fry
- Rapid Ragù
- Chicken, Mushroom and Bacon Pie
- Cheddar Cheese Risotto
- Macaroni Cheese
- Grilled Cheese and Slaw, and
- Sandwich Slaw
- Jumbleberry Crumble
- Roly Poly Pudding
- Butterfly Cakes
- Doughnut French Toast
- Totally Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Razzle Dazzle
- Green Apple Martini
- Ginger Pom
- Potato Cakes with Smoked Salmon
- The Instant Canapé: Quick Crostini with Avocado and Green Pea Hummus
- Tuna and Crab & Avocado Wraps
- Juicy Beef Skewers with Horseradish Dip (Including the Lamb Variation)
- Red-Leaf, Fig and Serrano Ham Salad And a Second time with Figs!
- Scallops-on-the-Shell
- Duck Breasts with Pomegranate and Mint
- Griddled Venison with Pink Gin Apple Sauce and Roast Pencil Leeks
- Tarte Fine Aux Pommes
- White Chocolate Mint Mousse
- Glitzy Chocolate Puddings
- Ice Cream Cake
- Blackberries in Muscat Jelly
- Ginger Passionfruit Trifle
Speedy Gonzales
- Mexican Scrambled Eggs
- Mexican Chicken Salad with Tomato and Black Bean Salsa
- Sweetcorn Chowder with Toasted Tortillas and revisited here
- Quick Chilli
- Chopped Ceviche and Mexicola
- Quesadillas
- Roquamole and revisited here
- Flan
- Margarita Ice Cream
- Buñuelos
- Mexican Hot Chocolate 1 2 Properly
On The Run
- Pea and Pesto Soup
- Chicken Caesar Cornets
- Rocky Road Crunch Bars
- Sesame Peanut Noodles
- Banana Butterscotch Muffins and also
- Crunchy Salad with Hot and Sour Dressing
- Lunchbox Treats
- Mortadella Pasta Salad
- Mini Meatloaves
- Spanish Omelette
- Buttermilk Roast Chicken
- New Orleans Coleslaw
- Cloudy Lemonade for a Sunny Day
- Hokey Pokey (Not a success!)
Hey Presto
- Tuna and Beans
- Mozzarella with Crazy Gremolata
- Pappardelle with Escarole
- Linguine with Lemon, Garlic and Thyme Mushrooms
- Spaghettini with Prawns and Chilli
- Black Pasta with Red Mullet The Wrong Colours!
- Pollo alla Cacciatora
- Lamb Cutlets with Chilli and Black Olives
- Liver with Bacon and Charred Onions
- Italian Sausages in Hot Tomato Sauce with Polenta
- Marsala Honey Pears with Gorgonzola
- Peaches in Muscat
- Amaretto Syllabub
- Budino di Cioccolato
- Chocolate Macaroons
Holiday Snaps
- Snowball
- Christmas in a Glass
- Pomegranate Bellini
- Rouge Limonade
- Martini Olives
- Maple Pepper Pecans
- Party Popcorn
- Cocktail Sausages
- Halloumi Bites 1 2
- Festive Fusilli
- Seafood Pot
- Broccoli and Stilton Soup and the leftovers!
- Butternut Squash with Pecans and Blue Cheese
- Turkey Tonnato
- Spiced Peaches
- Chocolate Pistachio Fudge
- Quickly Scaled Mont Blanc
- Mincemeat Parcels with Bourbon Butter
- Holiday Hot Cake with Eggnog Cream
- Marshmallow Crispy Squares
- Steeped Christmas Fruits
- Seasonal Fruit Salad
- Hot Toddy
Storecupboard SOS
- Garlic Oil : In Use 1
- Wok Oil -a mock up, and then properly
- Chilli Oil
- Golden Honey Mustard Dressing
- Anchovy Red Wine Dressing
- Wasabi Lime Dressing
- Red Pepper Hummus
- Golden Goat’s Cheese
- Lentil and Walnut Salad
- Salade Niçoise
- Minestrone in Minutes
- Merguez with Halloumi and Flame-Roasted Peppers
- Curry in a Hurry
- Mellow Meatballs
- Sausages with Sauerkraut
- Chocolate Pear Pudding
- Nutella Pancakes
- Clafoutis
- Vanilla Apples with Sweetheart Croûtes
I’m doing it too! I will add you to my favourites and check back on your progress.
[...] This is an official announcement of Helen’s new blog, The Sacred Art of Eating. She’ll be documenting a year’s worth of cooking challenge — to cook everything in Nigella Express before the 31 December. [...]
Visited your new site in response to announcement in Looking out to Sea
Love the chat and the pictures. Feel free to invite us to help out with eating/appreciation tasks. Also willing to bringing ingredients.
Feeling a bit lame not having a website of my own, don’t suppose CPD online counts.
Who is Lola?
Lola, good luck! I hope you’ll manage to stay motivated with only yourself as challenger- I’m quite glad I feel I have something to live up to!
Liz: Whatever happened to Surviving quite nicely without a website? Anyway, cpd online totally does count!
Yes, will be glad to have you and Ken for eats sometime. Perhaps post-Skiing, when we need something to cheer us up? 17 days to go!
[...] Laputain: I challenge you to choose a cookery book – any one you like, as long as it’s not a tiny cookery pamphlet or Larousse Gastronomique – and prepare every single recipe in it before December 31st 2008. Update: she’s doing this right here. [...]
cool
homepage phail helen. there’s no link from helenhare.net to here. i know you’ve been telling everyone the link to get in, but its poor form having a keech front page!
and this isn’t the front page, my dear. you’d want /food for that.
What an Challenge… Could you please mark the real English type of meals somehow, flag or something. I’m really fond of english cooking, no I’m not grazy, I think it’s too undervalued.