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Warm Autumn Salad

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A great accompaniment to roasted meat or poultry, or flake some hot smoked salmon through it for a more filling meal in a bowl. Like all my recipe ideas, can be adapted to include other vegetables and herbs, depending on what you have to hand.

Roast a generous amount of vegetables (red onion, butternut squash, carrots, potato, whole head of garlic) until well cooked and starting to get nice and brown at the edges. Toss with chopped basil, grilled haloumi, sugar snap peas and almond slivers (previously tossed together in a hot frypan with some olive oil) and a dressing of olive oil, a little lemon, grainy mustard and salt. Voila.

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In Season: Beautiful Butternut

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The vibrant orange of a ripe butternut squash must be one of the most beautiful colours on display in the vegetable kingdom. I’m not a big pumpkin/squash/ person, for the most part, but I welcome butternut, with its sweet yet not cloying, less tacky flesh, into my kitchen in Autumn. (There’s something about the way pumpkin sticks to the roof of one’s mouth that is downright disconcerting). The butternut in my kitchen goes into roast vegetable medleys and warm salads, pasta, risotto, and more. One thing I’ve done quite a bit this week, with butternut that has been roasted, is to make pita toasties filled with that and a tangy, creamy feta: superb. The toasties I make in my Breville toasted sandwich maker (the kind you can also lock apart to melt emmental onto croissants, for example). I don’t like to fill precious kitchen space with clunky implements, but this thing gets a hell of a lot of use in my house, and because it’s reasonably flat it fits in a draw. Recommend!

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