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Train feast

picnic eggs cherry tomatoes cucumber, red pepper & carrot sticks apples, grapes, bananas yoghurt sachets Hams & salami Train station pork pie Cheese Organix crisps & biscotti fresh bread - sliced Gu afternoon raspberry & Blackcurrant pots homemade popcorn raisins Dips: Gordon Ramsay: "With four young children we always include a few tubs of dips and dunkers - they're easy, nourishing and travel well. Mix flaked smoked mackerel, crème fraîche, lemon juice and a good dash of horseradish. Or we do chickpea purée: whizz a tin of chick peas with 4 tbs natural yoghurt, lemon juice and chopped fresh mint. Then pack a mixture of raw vegetable sticks, cooked shelled prawns tossed in olive oil and some grissini"

Fork and spoon muffins

Fork and spoon muffins Guardian recipe  

Dressings & sauces

Homemade tomato sauce    Jamie Oliver recipe Crunchy courgette pickle (goes with poached salmon)   BBC Good Food recipe

Healthy picnics

Jam Jar salads   BBC Good Food Recipe Stripy houmous salad jars   BBC Good Food Recipe 101 picnic recipes from the Guardian Veggie scotch eggs  Guardian recipe    

Make ahead recipes

One pot chilli chicken    BBC Good Food recipe Friday night fish pie    BBC Good Food recipe Indian potato pie     BBC Good Food recipe Easy lamb tagine     BBC Good Food recipe   Cumin scented chicken curry     BBC Good Food recipe Winter vegetable pie (veggie)     BBC Good Food    Turkey burgers     BBC Good Food recipe

w/c 25 Mar

Chicken & roast potatoes Summer fruits & ice cream Baked potatoes & ? Curry? Poire Belle Helene (Nigella) Fish pie Lemon & courgette pasta Mushroom risotto or Mushroom Ragout & polenta (Nigella How to Eat) Mackerel in cider Duck with orange salsa (Nigella) Chicken & chickpea tagine or Chicken stew & couscous (cook double to keep/freeze) Baked lamb chops with onion & rosemary sauce  Delia recipe

Nigella's Chilli Jam

Chilli Jam Although I call this chilli jam, I don't mean by this that it's the sort of thing you'd spread on your toast at breakfast (though smeared inside a bacon sandwich, it could be a real help one hungover morning) but rather a chilli jelly - chelly? - that glows a fiery, flecked red and is fabulous with cold meats or a cheese plate. And just a small pot of it makes a gorgeous present. In the traditional run of things, jellies are incredibly hard work to make, or at least I find them so. If I tell you that jelly-making tends to involve tying jelly bags or pieces of muslin to the leg of an upended stool and straining stuff through the fine cloth into a bowl sitting in the underside of the stool's seat for at least 12 hours, you'll get the picture. But don't worry. I don't strain - in either sense of the word - myself, but leave the orange-glowing red jelly cheerfully freckled with the bits of chilli and sweet pepper, and instead of getting my jelli

Jamie's Fish in a bag

From Jamie Oliver Fish in a bag Serves 1 Ingredients 1 free-range egg, beaten 100 g waxy potatoes ½ bulb fennel, trimmed and cut into wedges, frond reserved ½ lemon, finely sliced 5 cherry tomatoes, halved 1 drizzle olive oil 1 handful pitted black olives, halved 120 g firm fish fillet, such as haddock, halibut or salmon, from sustainables sources, ask your fishmonger, skinned and pinboned sea salt freshly ground black pepper 1 splash white wine      Method Bring a pan of salted water to the boil. Make a bag out of wide foil by tearing off a piece 35 x 45cm in size and folding it double. Fold three sides up, sealing it by brushing a little beaten egg onto the edges before you fold. Leave one side open. Cut the potatoes into quarters (large potatoes into eighths). Drop them into the boiling salted water and cook for 6 minutes. Meanwhile, place the fennel, lemon slices, cherry tomatoes, oil, olives and fish in a large bowl. Season and gently combine. Drain the potatoes, cool and add to

w/c 11 March

Mexican tortillas, avocado, tomato salsa & refried beans Filled pasta Baked potatoes with ham, coleslaw, cheddar & cornichons Ham & leek risotto Japanese delicacies Spring salmon with minty veg Spaghetti with pork meatballs lunches at home: fish in a bag chicken goujons with lemon & corn cobs Tuna sweet potato jackets BBC Good Food - Spaghetti & meatballs BBC Good Food - Spring Salmon   Veggie casserole with herb dumplings Tuna sweet potato jackets   Jamie Oliver - Fish in a bag  

Mediterranean recipes

10 great mediterranean recipes from the Guardian