Warm Couscous Salad with Grilled Red Peppers and Halloumi

This is one of my all-time favourite party dishes for potlucks; it’s tasty, light, and suitable for vegetarians/vegans. It’s also good for a quick and easy dinner after work, as it takes only about 20 minutes to prepare and assemble.
I love everything about halloumi - how it’s buttery, tasty, and mysteriously unable to melt when [...]

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Good English Food. Really.

 
Dorset apple cake, from the Engine Room in Poundbury, Dorset.
Last month’s trip back to the UK was lovely, not least because of all the wonderful food we had. I know “good English food” is an oxymoron in most people’s minds, who tend to think it as stodgy fish and chips, 1970’s prawn cocktails and boiled cauliflower  (I know I did before I [...]

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