Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights

Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights
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Sophie Dahl, one of the most glorious women on the planet, shares delicious secrets from her slinky kitchen, funny stories and favourite recipes in a beautifully illustrated hardback. With delectable recipes for each season, this luscious abundant take on food will delight women everywhere.Sophie Dahl has been both round as a Rubens and as sylphy as a sapling, through trial, error and an episode in India which needn't be discussed in detail with anyone.She lived out the latter part of her adolescence in public, and so her puppy fat, which should have been a tender family joke, became fuel for national debate. At the time this was crippling to her, and one of the reasons she moved to another country. Flirting with every food fad from Atkins to raw food, she has had both misadventures and victories in her quest to have a sound healthy relationship with food.Now in her twenty-ninth year it is suddenly simpler: Sophie cooks and eats, and does both with gusto. It can be lonely and confusing navigating food, particularly with the standards of beauty and weight that are thrust upon us by advertisers. Sophie aims to debunk some of the horrible punishing diet myths, and replace them with compassionate common sense, anecdotal stories and a lashing of healthy recipes. This is a book that doesn't encourage guilt or monastic deprivation, but celebrates the joy in food and eating.Original, funny, quirky with a bit of whimsy, this glorious ebook is full of wonderful anecdotes and delicious recipes and scattered with Sophie’s own lovely Matisse-like line drawings that slope off the page.

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Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights

Sophie Dahl

photographs by

Jan Baldwin


For Jamie, at whose table I wish to grow old. With all my love.

Table of Contents


Title Page

Dedication

Cook’s notes

Introduction

Autumn

Autumn breakfasts

Poached eggs on portobello mushrooms with goat’s cheese

Rice pudding cereal with pear purée

Omelette with caramelized red onion and Red Leicester

Tawny granola

Musician’s breakfast (home-made bread with Parma ham)

Indian sweet potato pancakes

Baked haddock ramekin

Autumn lunches

Spinach and watercress salad with goat’s cheese

French onion soup

Squid salad with chargrilled peppers and coriander/cilantro dressing

Baked eggs with Swiss chard

Chicken and halloumi kebabs with chanterelles

Spinach barley soup

Buckwheat risotto with wild mushrooms

Autumn suppers

Peasant soup

Sunday roast chicken and trimmings

Paris mash

Sea bass in tarragon and wild mushroom sauce

Lily’s stir fry with tofu

Aubergine/eggplant Parmigiana

Grilled salmon with baked onions

Winter

Winter breakfasts

Pear and ginger muffins

Scrambled tofu with cumin and shiitake mushrooms

Kedgeree with brown rice

Scrambled eggs with red chillies and vine tomatoes

Winter fruit compote

Porridge with apricots, manuka honey and crème fraîche

Hangover eggs

Grilled bananas with Greek yoghurt and agave

Winter lunches

Warm winter vegetable salad

Chicken soup with chickpeas

Spelt pancakes filled with cream cheese and butternut squash

Pasta puttanesca

Hollers’ curried parsnip soup

Chargrilled artichoke hearts with Parmesan and winter leaves

Chestnut and mushroom soup

Winter suppers

Brown rice risotto with pumpkin, mascarpone, sage and almonds

My dad’s chicken curry

Monkfish with saffron sauce

Fish pie with celeriac mash

Cauliflower cheese

Buttermilk chicken with smashed sweet potatoes

Christmas done as healthily as it can be

Spring

Spring breakfasts

Grilled papaya/pawpaw with lime

Coquette’s eggs

Bircher muesli

Scrambled tofu with pesto and spinach

Lemon and ricotta spelt pancakes

Grilled figs with ricotta and thyme honey

Rhubarb compote with orange flower yoghurt and pistachios

Spring lunches

My mama’s baked acorn squash

Crab and fennel salad

Teddy’s lettuce soup

Asparagus soup with Parmesan

Courgette/zucchini and watercress soup

Baby vegetable fricassee

Broad bean/fava salad with pecorino and asparagus

Spring suppers

Sea bass with black olive salsa and baby courgettes/zucchini

Pan-fried orange halibut with watercress purée

Hortense’s fish soup

Crusted rack of lamb for Luke

Chargrilled scallops on pea purée

Turmeric tofu with cherry tomato quinoa pilaf

Chicken stew with green olives

Prawn/shrimp, avocado, grapefruit, watercress and pecan salad

Summer

Summer breakfasts

Cinnamon roast peaches with vanilla yoghurt

Blueberry strawberry smoothie

Cold frittata with goat’s cheese and courgettes/zucchini

Scrambled eggs with watercress and smoked salmon

Breakfast burrito

Home-made muesli with strawberry yoghurt

Summer lunches

Avocado soup

Quinoa salad with tahini dressing

Beetroot soup

Pea soup

Summer squash with tomato sauce and pine nuts

Salad niçoise sans anchovies and potatoes

Fish cakes

Summer suppers

Linguine with tomatoes, lemon, chilli and crab

Warm ratatouille

Chicken and fennel au gratin

Coconut curry with prawns/shrimp

Grilled vegetables with halloumi cheese

Barbequed salmon on a cedar plank

Wild rice risotto

Puddings

Ginger parkin

Baked apples

Lemon Capri torte

Lemon mousse

Clover’s Carnation milk jelly

Blackberry and apple crumble

Flourless chocolate cake

Cardamom rice pudding

Elderflower jelly

Flapjacks

Eton mess with rhubarb

Banana Bread

Chocolate chestnut soufflé cake

Orange yoghurt and polenta cake

Acknowledgements

Index

Suppliers

Copyright

About the Publisher

I long to learn about grams and kilograms—perhaps one day I will. Having lived in America for so long, I am used to cooking in American measurements of cups and sticks of butter, etc. However, this book has been cleverly translated so that you don’t have to.

All spoon measures are level unless specified otherwise.

1 tsp = 5ml; 1 tbsp = 15ml. An American tablespoon is slightly smaller than the standard British tablespoon.

A British pint = 600ml; an American pint (2 cups) = 500ml.

All pepper is freshly ground black pepper. I also use good-quality sea salt, such as Maldon.

Eggs/Dairy/Stock/Poultry: try to use organic, free-range where possible. If you are pregnant, avoid raw or lightly-cooked eggs and unpasteurized cheeses. For stock I use either fresh or vegetable bouillon; Marigold Swiss Vegetable Bouillon Powder is very good.

Citrus fruit: if the zest is to be used, buy unwaxed citrus fruit.

Crème fraîche: American readers can substitute soured cream.

OVEN TEMPERATURE CHART

Oven timings are for both conventional and fan-assisted ovens. However, use oven temperatures and timings as a guide: get to know the temperatures of your own oven, since individual ovens can vary quite a bit.



The second word I ever spoke was ‘crunch’—muddled baby speak for fudge, which should have alerted my parents to what lay ahead. As a small child, food occupied both my waking and nocturnal thoughts; I had clammy nightmares about dreadful men made from school mashed potato wearing striped tights, chasing me into dense forests.



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