Orchards in the Oasis

Quick supper dish - pappardelle with orange pepper tossed with slivered garlic, wilted spinach and smoked oysters ...

The perfect easy way to create a finale to a summer meal more celebratory looking than just a bowl of fruit - whatever soft fruit you choose set in elderflower jelly in a cake tin and turned out.

Orchards in the Oasis updated their website address.

A large wild salmon brought up to the boil in a pan of water for 4-5 minutes, then left in the tightly covered pan to poach slowly in the cooling water overnight. Finally, skinned and decorated as you wish.

This is a page about one of my books which I've managed for ages and put on photos and info of food I've made or eaten. Suddenly Facebook tells me that I can't 'for privacy reasons'. Why?

Good cheeses, sourdough bread and Dover sole with cauliflower gratin in Normandy

Just a few of the many delectable dishes at a dinner cooked by brilliant Spanish chef Jose Pizarro to celebrate the 80th birthday (VERY hard to believe) of Claudia Roden at Oxford Gastronomica.
Pan-fried ceps with egg yolk, Iberico pork with padron peppers, lentils with Monte Enebro cheese and caremelized walnuts and tomato salad with white anchovies and mouthwatering Iberico jamon. An exceptional evening for an exceptional woman.

Eat Your Books

Try 11 recipes from member-indexed 'Orchards in the Oasis: Travels, Food and Memories' by Josceline Dimbleby: http://bit.ly/1UoWv2P

A short reading from Orchards in the Oasis recently published by the online food magazine Talking of Food - from the Syria chapter - tragic to think it was like that in the past www.talkingoffood.com...

Eating in roadside dhabas when travelling in India is often the best choice for fresh delicious flavours, cooked in front of you.

Christmas brownies with fresh cranberries and orange zest, sprinkled with edible red glitter - gooey, chewy, intensely chocolaty - with a delicious tang.

Henry Dimbleby's Indian aubergine and cauliflower puree recipe - Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk This delicious recipe is exactly the sort of exotic dish my mother loved to make

Traveller's tastes - oyster pancake stall, Malacca, unfortunate smelling durian and luscious mangosteens on the road, vegetarian lunch in Little India, Georgetown, Penang

Recipe of the Day: Josceline Dimbleby's Turkey Balls with Lemon and Cardamom

Once more the wonderful effect of cardamom - see intro to recipe.

quadrillebooks.tumblr.com Photography by Steven Joyce At the start of the 1980s cardamom was an unfamiliar spice in the United Kingdom. I started experimenting with it in both savoury and sweet dishes after I fell in love with...

Recipe of the Day: Josceline Dimbleby's Pork, Red Onion and Courgette Tart

quadrillebooks.tumblr.com Photography by Steven Joyce This is wonderfully creamy and best when hot. The old-fashioned pairing of butter and lard makes the pastry deliciously crumbly, but use vegetable fat if you prefer. 1...

Indian Meatballs Stuffed with Cheese from Josceline Dimbleby's Marvellous Meals with Mince

quadrillebooks.tumblr.com Photography by Steven Joyce I love eating things with hidden surprises, and meatballs provide a perfect opportunity. Here the soft cheese centre blends perfectly with the spiced meat; lovely for a...

Pumpkin Oeuf en Cocotte. Its pumpkin time when I love using big round ones as a cooking pot, filling them with spicy chicken or vegetables. This year shops are full of small pumpkins called Munchkins - last night I topped them and scooped out the seeds before baking, then put an egg in the centre of each with a blob of blue cheese and popped them back in the oven for 7-8 minutes so we spooned out the flesh mingling with soft yolked egg and melting cheese - luscious!

Using up leftovers: last night's supper - basmati brown rice with 1 bulb fennel, 1 long red pepper, 1 large purple onion, 2 leeks, chestnut mushrooms, fresh ginger, and spiced chicken livers with a handful of rocket thrown in. It tasted very good.

Apricot and pomegranate jelly from Josceline Dimbleby's Orchards in the Oasis

This recipe evokes memories of Syria, a country at the forefront of my mind

quadrillebooks.tumblr.com Photo © Jason Lowe In the Ghouta, during the spring, my favourites - apricots and pomegranates - flowered at the same time, growing side by side like friends. Later, as their fruit ripened, the...

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Josceline Dimbleby's Rose Petal Tart

Please use this link for the Rose Petal Tart recipe from Orchards in the Oasis! http://quadrillebooks.tumblr.com/post/56334684539/josceline-dimblebys-rose-petal-tart

quadrillebooks.tumblr.com Photography by Jason Lowe Serves 6-8 For the crystallised rose petals: petals of 1–2 scented red roses 1 large egg white (yolk reserved for tart filling) caster sugar for coating For the short...

For anyone wanting to try the Josceline's delicious Rose Petal Tart mentioned in the Evening Standard you can fine the recipe here...http://quadrillebooks.tumblr.com/post/55867147370/recipe-of-the-day-josceline-dimblebys-rose-petal-tart

Creating an urban oasis in your garden | Outdoors | Your home & garden | Homes & Property

Want to know more about Josceline's garden? Then read this brilliant piece in the Evening Standard http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/your_home_and_garden/outdoors/creatinganurbanoasisinyourgardenjoscelinedimbleby.html

homesandproperty.co.uk Food writer Josceline Dimbleby has used artistic instinct to create a romantic magical garden packed with roses, hollyhocks and foxgloves at her west London home - Homes and Property

The dazzling heatwave rolls miraculously on after the endless grey cold - now all meals in the garden and home grown fresh verveine tea to refresh - heaven ...

The Greek island of Sifnos is famous for it's capers - they are harvesting them now - here they are. The caper salad is delicious - long cooked and sweet with onions.

Woman & Home, July issue

In The Know with Josceline Dimbleby

mightyspicekitchen.com In The Know – travel notes from our favourite chefs. Josceline Dimbleby is a food writer who has published 17...

A PERFECT MARRIAGE - elderflowers, with their uniquely scented flavour, are just coming into bloom. They are well known to marry well with gooseberries but with apricots the relationship is even better. Here are roasted apricots set in elderflower jelly.

MORE LOVELY FISH (and super healthy veg) - there was a craze for monkfish in the 1980's but I don't think I've cooked it for years - this was an excellent return to it, smeared with pesto, wrapped in thin pancetta and roasted. Served with fennel and spring greens in a delicious sauce of goats milk thickened with gram (chick pea) flour, flavoured with turmeric and nutmeg - non dairy, non gluten with the countless befits of the suoer spice, turmeric - what could be more healthy!

TURBOT TREAT - surely turbot is one of the best textured fish there can be - here's a fairly small one I baked in dry Vermouth with slivers of lemon, fennel, ginger and mild Turkish chilli flakes

The Alphonoso mango season is just starting so make the most of this miraculous mango while you can. Yesterday I set Alphonso slices in a fresh blood orange jelly - ultra healthy as no added sugar was needed - but it tasted even more luscious dribbled with double cream.

I always seem to be cooking red things but this was delicious last night; beetroot and sweet potato mash with red onions, spring greens (SUCH a good vegetable) and meltingly soft calves liver coated in crispy gram flour.

Last night's pud - baked cheesecake on chocolate digestive crust with flaked chocolate on top, seved with raspberry and orange coulis. Unfortunately my pig's cheeks, tomato, tamarind and coconut milk curry was wolfed down before I thought of photographing it!

Healthy scarlet supper - beetroot leaves with beetroot and carrot mash (the added carrot makes the taste wonderfully mellow). But we did have bangers too.

More Burmese street food ten days ago in Pyay - soft yolked quails eggs in crispy featherlight little rice saucers - a wonderfully sensual explosion in the mouth!