What should you be cooking this month?
February is finally here - and so is the cold weather! Keep warm with our recipes to keep the chills at bay. Luscious Scallop Cream Soup, hearty Venison Sausages Braised in Red Wine, or the old family favourite Toad in the Hole with Roasted-onion Gravy.
Serves 4Grilled Venison Steaks with Red Onion, Grape and Raisin Confit
Venison is a lovely meat and, because it's low in fat, it's ideal for those on a diet. The red onion and grape confit is a superb accompaniment and would also work well with pork, gammon or sausages.
Serves 4Oven-roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli with Garlic and Coriander
Cauliflower and broccoli are both fantastic on the health front but can be a tad dull if just boiled or steamed. This lovely gratin is full of flavour and a great way of serving wintry veg.
Pot-roasted Venison with Shrewsbury Sauce
Pot-roasting venison is a lovely way of preparing this wonderful low-fat meat. This makes a great supper dish for a winter day, served with plenty of mashed potato and green veg.
Serves 2Fried Herring Fillets with a Lime Pepper Crust
For me the humble herring, once the food of the poor, is a great delicacy with all the gutsy flavours of fresh sardines but lots more juicy flesh. Now they can be bought boned and filleted and are cooked in moments. The lime and pepper crust is frag
Serves 8-10Blueberry and Cinnamon Muffin Cake with Streusel Topping
Having got totally hooked on making muffins, I realised that the muffin mixture could be baked in an ordinary cake tin and served cut into thick slices – either as a dessert, warm from the oven, and topped with Greek yoghurt, or as a cake for tea.
Serves 6Rhubarb and Almond Crumble
Although my own rhubarb crop is only about 3 inches high at present, there is plenty of the early forced rhubarb in the shops and it's never better than in this most English of puddings. On Sundays we serve it with proper custard, an extra luxurious
Serves 4Leek, Onion and Potato Soup
One of Delia's absolute favourite soups - and the good thing is that it's really cheap to make, especially in the winter months when leeks and potatoes are packed with flavour.
Serves 2Chicken and Leek Pot Pie
This is what I call comfort food - the kind of thing to make on a cold, grey winter's day. You can vary the vegetables if you like (I quite like it with mushrooms replacing half the leeks).
Serves 4Braised Lamb with Flageolet Beans
Neck fillet of lamb provides very sweet meat that responds perfectly to long, slow cooking and if you add pre-soaked dried green flageolets to cook alongside it these, too, absorb the sweet flavours of the lamb.
Serves 2Deep-fried Sprats with Mustard Sauce
In the good old days, when herrings were cheap and humble, their smaller cousins sprats were even humbler and it’s only now that they’re coming into their own again – which is a good thing, because they are delicious.
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