My earliest food memory...Being sent out to pick spinach and courgettes from my parents' vegetable patch. I remember spinach being really woody and pretty hard work – it was a cruel upbringing! My favourite childhood dish was my mum's "pasta willy"; it was a massive piece of home-made pasta, scattered with wilted spinach and leftover ham, rolled up, cooked in muslin then covered in a lovely tomato sauce.
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A new leaf: Mark Hix sings the praises of spinach
Saturday 18 February 2012
Spinach is the versatile superfood that will keep you strong and healthy throughout the winter months. After all, if it was good enough for Popeye...
Lunchbox recipes from the experts
Thursday 01 September 2011
Soggy sandwiches are so last term. Bid boring breaktimes farewell with these mouth-watering ideas from some of Britain's top chefs
Salt-baked Cornish turbot with new potatoes, broad beans and spinach
Sunday 21 August 2011
Serves 6-8
Dressed to thrill: Mark Hix celebrates late summer with his inspired salad recipes
Saturday 20 August 2011
Salads can so often be deadly dull without any thought being put into them. But having a few simple, well thought out salads on the table for people to share is always welcome and means that you can help yourself to as much or as little as you like. So this week I am giving you recipes for delicious, simple, late-summer salads that you can get ready in advance and then assemble with the dressing just before serving. The key is to make sure you have really good-quality ingredients. A long, relaxed, drawn-out summery lunch is hard to beat, especially when the weather behaves and you can sit outside in the sunshine.
On Cloud nine: Skye Gyngell recreates the menu she put together for Cloudy Bay's popup shack
Sunday 14 August 2011
Earlier this month, I hosted a pop-up shack in Parsons Green, west London, for the wine company Cloudy Bay, after they asked me to create some dishes to match their wines.
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