Blinis with Smoked Salmon and Caviar
In the normal scheme of things, cheats don't do canapés. Far too fiddly and fussy. However, now you can buy cocktail blinis (bite-sized buckwheat pancakes), all this actually involves is a quick assembly...
Quick Stir fried Spiced Red Cabbage with Apples
Red cabbage is wonderfully versatile - you can cook it long and slow and it seems to go on improving, or in the recipe below the opposite: fast cooking to retain some crunchiness and bite. Either way the...
Red Onion and Goats' Cheese Tart
This is a kind of standby recipe for the Christmas holiday if you've got some goats' cheese and a packet of fresh thyme stashed away in the fridge. You can whip some rolled puff pastry out of the freezer...