More comfort food from childhood, and one of my father’s specialities. Any colour of pepper will do – I like the green ones, but my family prefer red or yellow as they’re sweeter. There’s probably a gazillion different recipes out there, but this is the way my parents (and my father’s family) always made them,… Continue reading Stuffed peppers
Tag: lamb
Lemon meatball soup
AKA Ekşili köfte, AKA the taste of my childhood. There’s nothing quite like it on the comfort food scale for me or my siblings, and it’s one of the only recipes I ever managed to get my father to write down (it says helpful things like ‘carrots’ as you can see further down the page).… Continue reading Lemon meatball soup
Lamb pasta
Quick, easy & yum. This recipe combines the flavours of the Middle East and South East Asia, and is served with pasta of all things, which is why I think of it as confused. The recipe is by Sabrina Ghayour with a couple of substitutions from me and I think my father would have loved… Continue reading Lamb pasta
Ottolenghi’s Lamb + feta meatballs
Or, as I like to call them, Ottolenghi’s balls, because I’m such a child. A variation on kofte, these are excellent. Served here with rice, griddled strips of courgette (use a veg peeler to cut really thin slices, toss them in a little olive oil, then lay them in a hot dry griddle pan until… Continue reading Ottolenghi’s Lamb + feta meatballs
Lamb shish kebab
Oh boy these are good. Prep the lamb, get it marinating in the morning, and you’ll have delicious tender kebabs for dinner. Serve them any which way you fancy – with potato salad, baked potato, tiny roast potatoes, fries, wedges, chips, mash potato, potato rosti, buttered new potatoes, hasselhoff potatoes (I’m sorry, I’ll stop now),… Continue reading Lamb shish kebab
Lahmajun
One of my all time top favourite foods, and one that instantly takes me back to childhood and holidays visiting family in Istanbul. When word gets out now that a batch has been made then sibling seem to turn up out of the blue looking hopeful for leftovers. Oh and the day I discovered that… Continue reading Lahmajun
