mint yoghurt

The only mint yoghurt recipe you need

Gavin Wren Recipes, Spreads & Dips, Vegetarian

It’s my Birthday today, that internationally recognised occasion featuring parties in the streets, brass band fanfares and rolled out red carpets. Or maybe just a small cake at home and a few pressies then we’ll see if there’s any dancing troupes out in the street later. BUT, as a Birthday week special, I’ve got no less than THREE recipes for you. How about that, it’s MY birthday and what do I do? Kick back, put …

beetroot and dill yoghurt dip

Dill & beetroot dip

Gavin Wren Recipes, Spreads & Dips, Vegetables, Vegetarian

It’s been a long time since I wrote ‘dill and beetroot’ on my list of ingredients to play around with. As individual ingredients, they both rank pretty highly on my mental list of favourite tastes; dill especially, because when it’s good, it’s breathtakingly aromatic. You could almost make a perfume from it, although that might be just a little bit weird. One of the first dishes that I mastered beyond cheese on toast (with tomato …

Baba Ghanoush aubergine dip

Baba ghanoush – the food of the gods

Gavin Wren Recipes, Side dishes, Spreads & Dips, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Ambrosia is an often overused word, hastily thrown around with levity to elevate the status of a particular food. It’s a very serious word (to me, anyway) which means ‘food of the gods’, and religious denominations aside I try to be reserved in it’s use simply out of respect. So, it’s with a certain amount of reticence that I’m considering using it in the description here. Baba Ghanoush, Mutabal or Moutabal, are some of the …