Delia recipes

[Goodwitch9]

Feeling nostalgic! What are your favourite, tried and tested recipes by St Delia of Norwich?

Rhubarb crumble ice cream.

Cheesy enchiladas, my go to for vegetarians

God, so many, I cook from her books every week. She's the best. Off the top of my head:

Ragu
Moroccan chicken
Chicken basque
Thai green curry
Guacamole
Pad Thai
Aligot
Meatballs
Tomato sauce
Quick blender mayonnaise (make this every few days, using a stick blender)
Boston baked beans
At Christmas I do her mincemeat, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding (adapted a bit), sausage rolls, loads of the pickles.

Her braised red cabbage recipe always turns out well at Christmas.

My favourite is chicken with grapes:
Shredded chicken breasts, mayo, single or dbl crm, salt, pepper, chopped spring onons, fresh tarragon leaves, lots of halved seedless green grapes. Serve on a bed of little gem. She suggesyed a lentil and brown rice salad to go with but we usually have new potatoes and a tomato and rocket salad.

From the summer cook book: roasted veg with goats cheese, leafy greens on a bed of cous cous with harissa dressing, with roasy lamb.

I love the rhubarb crumble ice cream but sadly the children turn their noses up at it. They do however love her equally good lemon meringue ice cream 😋

Chicken with sherry and vinegar
tomato baked risotto
everything christmas
chocolate pots
souffle
salad with hot camembert dressing
the list just keeps going on

Her carbonara was the first thing I ever learned to cook.
Chicken basque
Caesar salad
Lemon meringue ice cream
Chocolate bread and butter pudding

Spinach ricotta lasagna with pine nuts

soo good

Sausages in cider are a 70s classic that everybody still loves
I won't use anybody else's pavlova or yorkshire pudding recipe
Jean's gingerbread (I don't know who Jean is)
Moussaka

You can't go into the kitchen of anybody my age (52) without spotting a copy of the complete cookery course, and they are always missing the cover and usually the spine, and so well used

That's good too.

I love her roast veg lasagne and pesto risotto salad.

Another vote for her Moussaka. Though I have adapted it slightly over the years.

I am going to revisit my cookbooks, for me it's
all in one white/cheese sauce
gazpacho
leek, onion & potato soup
toasted goats' cheese w blackened sherry vinegar
potato salad w shallots and vinaigrette
roasted figs w gorgonzola & honey vinegar sauce
classic victoria sponge

This evening I'll make bread pudding, my MIL used to make it for my DH and I guess it's my turn now.

All hail St Delia!

Gammon with port, oranges with cloves in, spaghetti bolognese, boiling an egg (🤣). She’s a goddess.

I have the black separate cookery books. When I had my Canadian boyfriend years ago he bought his mum a complete cookery course (Delia) book.

Shepherd's pie with cheese crusted leeks
Confit of cranberries for serving with game

Her oven baked risotto recipes are a fantastic cheat

Yes the brown cookery book

i don’t use it as much now but it was invaluable in the 90s with no internet

Now now Nigella !

A second vote for the chicken basque.

I'm not still making them but mainly because I don't cook as much now. But from memory:
Cheese, onion and olive scones.
2 types of Christmas cake.
Sage and onion loaf.
Chocolate truffle torte.

Her recipes are great and from what I can remember, pretty foolproof.

All in one sponge (obviously now from memory but learned from her book)
Damp gingerbread (always a massive hit when I take it to work)
Banana bread and flapjack
Chocolate bread and butter pudding (every Christmas)
Carbonara risotto
Many more but these are the most used.

Oh, and potato, leek and onion soup.

I think that’s the one I have it’s lost its cover and has been sellotaped to hold it all together. It has come out every Christmas for the past forty years😀

Just got Delia off the shelf for pancakes! It’s a well-splattered page