can we have a thread where we recommend recipes that we often re-visit?

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You don't have to go to the trouble of copying and pasting or describing it all, but just recommend the recipe and the book and why it works for you/your family? Everyone else can google the links.

As an example, for me it would be the minestrone from Nigella's How To Eat. I've made it so often now that I don't really need to look at the book, but I love it because it is quirky (no garlic, no tomatoes - both of which I love but this recipe just totally works without either) and one way to get the children to eat dark greens. And also because it is lush and keeps well and can be a lunch for friends, or a proper main course dinner for family.

I want to expand my repertoire of fail-safe day to day stuff like this! Anyone want to contribute?

I cook a lot from all of the Books For Cooks cookbooks .

Also Molly O'Neill's New York Cookbook, for example the Greek cauliflower bake with feta and the chinese shrimps with spring onions or the chili.

This saag paneer is foolproof and soooo much better than any curry house or ready meal version. It has been made a 1000 times
www.mallikabasu.com/2008/07/25/perfect-saag-paneer/

thanks Charity
Sag paneer is one of my all time fav dishes

The proper blokes pasta is a take on a Carluccio recipe from Passion for Pasta, which I bought around 20 years ago (that makes me feel so old!). It's similar, but uses Rosemary, nutmeg and cloves rather than fennel and chilli. It's absolutely gorgeous. Tonight I'm trying the pregnant pasta, and this weekend I'm going for the baked gnocchi mentioned above. Sounds fab. Bookmarking loads of other recipes too.

Oh that baked gnocchi recipe does look absolutely scrumptious!

Watching this. Nothing to add atm, I'm a bung it in type of gal. Recipes do my head in as I forget stuff. Easier for me to read the recipe and wing it.

Rick Stein's Egg Molee is a firm favourite here, make it at least twice a month. Cheap, cheerful, full of flavour and tastes amazing! Sounds fucking odd though, a curry with boiled eggs, works a charm though

Forgot the olives in my puttanesca, but please use fresh tomatoes rather than canned, it really is no more effort....

I mainly use two Jane Hornby cookbooks - one is called What to cook I think and the other Fresh and Easy. Recipes from those I make often are:
Steamed salmon with pak choi
Prawn, fennel, cherry tomato spaghetti with chilli
Her recipe for bolognese
Grilled halloumi with pomegranate tabbouleh
Roasted vegetable couscous
Asparagus and bacon frittata
Bircher muesli
Chicken with quinoa
Aubergine parmigiana
Vegetable lasagne
Vegetable tagine

I make Jamie Oliver ministry of food fish pie - easy and delicious
And nigella express prawn Thai curry (substituting tinned pineapple for fresh mango)
There is a great recipe for venison with celeriac mash and blackberries which is so quick and easy on BBC good food.

Also Jools' favourite stew - another Jamie one.

Jamie Oliver's Farfalle with pancetta, savoy cabbage, mozzarella, parmesan, pine nuts..... yum & more yum.

Also slow cooked Chicken & Chorizo casserole.

My version of risotto with bacon & peas.

Roast veg pasta bake - with mozzarella and bechamel sauce..

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Nigella's ham in coke
Jamie's fantastic fish pie ( from second book with egg and veg in it)
Tanya Ramsey's spicy lentil and cannelloni bean soup ( lots of veg and protein, really good in the slow cooker)
Madhur Jeffrey's easy & quick Masala omelette
Mary Berry fast cake recipe carrot cake

Love this thread! Have now got some new recipes to try this weekend (and for weeks to come). The recipes I use most often:

• madhouse sausage pasta
• madhouse mackerel pate and beetroot relish
• nigellissima pancetta and pea orzo but I also make it with salmon and spinach/peas. Great storecupboard standby
• nigella express chilli (and her choc chip one from her xmas book when I have time)
• Rachel allen's banana bread
• Jamie's jools favourite stew

So I tried this recipe tonight, my God it was bloody gorgeous!

thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/spelt-spaghetti-vine-tomatoes-and-baked-ricotta

Thanks MargheritaA!

This chicken is lovely, but leave out the lemon. I cook this at least a couple of times a month

This is a beautiful Moussaka, I add an extra 50grms of grated Parmesan, and I use it in the Béchamel also.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/apr/05/how-to-cook-perfect-moussaka

We had" Lorraine Pascale's Dad's lasagne" at the BIL and it is gorgeous so I have just ordered her book so I can make it for myself

Also in How to Eat - beef stew with anchovies and thyme. Freezes well. Full of flavour.

Most of my go to recipes are Nigella. I'm not sure why, they just work so well.

Chicken and chorizo with cannelini beans, double potato and halloumi bake, and slow cooked lamb with Pomegranate and mint - Nigella bites

Za atar chicken with Fattoush, yellow fish curry - Forever summer

Chicken and sausage marinade easy roast - Feast. Actually, so many from Feast I can't choose!

I also like Donna Hay's Off the Shelf although she and I hardly have the same kind of pantry. I take a lot of the Asian inspiration from there, eg. a thai lemongrass rice salad.

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We've had a request to move this out of chat so it doesn't disappear
We will do if that's okay with everyone
Am not reading the thread as am already very hungry
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MNHQ

I found Annabel Karmel's Nursery Fish pie to be foolproof and straightforward. Made it so many times I don't need the recipe now, and I'm not the greatest in the kitchen ;-)
(And although I love Hugh F-W, the fish pie in his "family" cookbook is the faffiest thing ever).

Everything on the Mamacook website. Especially broccoli nuggets, sweet corn muffins with tomato and pesto soup, sugar free banana bread, bran and tea loaf, healthy baked fish fingers, carrot muesli, lettuce salad, fruit and nut slice, flapjacks, turnovers, pancakes. I hope Heidi is a Mumsnetter, I am a fan.

Where's that Pinterest board one of you was putting together? Can you share, pleeeeeaaaase??

I made the jools Oliver pasta tonight and can confirm that it was lush. Even though having gone to the supermarket I deliberately didn't buy fennel seeds because I had them. Except I didn't. Evil children muttered something about it being ok but that it was missing something. Swines.

I love that Jools pasta

I also love that fennel sausage pasta. That reminded me I made this Jamie Oliver prawn and fennel pasta the other day (the fennel came in the veg box and had no idea what to do with it). It was delicious. I used defrosted frozen prawns to keep the cost down and added red peppers and courgettes.
www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/prawn-linguine/