Today rather got away from me, so this one will be short and sweet, before I turn into a pumpkin. The week has been full of leftovers of various kinds – but the good sort of leftovers. Tomorrow is my birthday, so the fridge is now stacked with lots of edible goodies: baguette dough to bake tomorrow morning, St Jude cheese from Neal’s Yard, a joint of pork, and another of beef, prosciutto, peaches, cherries and apricots. So with any luck, next week we’ll have amazing leftovers too.

Recipes:

• America’s test kitchen baguettes – not baked yet
• Half lamb shoulder shawarma – Honey & Co method with Ottolenghi Jerusalem spice mix
• Warm cauliflower salad, with sultanas and almonds – liberally adapted from Rosie Reynolds in the Guardian (see above)
• Alice Medrich Cocoa brownies, via Sassy Radish
• This stir-fry sauce, made into fried rice, with the rest frozen in cubes (as good as promised – brilliant idea)

Without a recipe:

• Lamb stuffed into pittas with red cabbage salad and hummus
• Oven fish and chips
• Meatballs (from the freezer) with roasted cherry tomatoes and tomato sauce over pasta
• New potato salad with mint

Reading:

• Heidi from 101 Cookbooks visits the printer where they are printing her latest cookbook 
• Fantastic Fiction and Fabulous Feasts, Food Programme – BBC Radio 4  – I especially connected with Diana Henry’s memories of the Little House books.
• Shutterbean’s Baked Corn & Tomato Risotto 
• Tangerine & Cinnamon has produced another set of essential food links, including:
  • Out With The Caraway, In With The Ginger: 50 Years Of American Spice Consumption
  • A Tale of Two Scales: Why I Can’t Live without My Kitchen and Bathroom Scales — Loving Food While Losing Weight
  • Slavery, Famine And The Politics Of Pie: What Civil War Recipes Reveal
  • Paleo Diet? Science Has Moved On Since The Stone Age
  • The Fall Of A Dairy Darling: How Cottage Cheese Got Eclipsed By Yogurt