There have been two wonderful additions to my life in the past week, the incredible vegetarian cookbook Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi (which this recipe was sourced from) and my new MacBook Pro (which I’m currently writing on) . I’m sure that both will provide me with plenty of inspiration for many posts in the future.

I found Plenty on Heidi Swanson’s website 101 cookbooks and I knew immediately that I had to have it. Ottolenghi is a renowned chef and owner of Ottolenghi restaurant in London, and though he is not a vegetarian himself, he understands how to inject vegetables with spices to produce wonderfully flavoured and tantalising dishes. The photography in the cookbook is also vibrant and motivates you to try the recipes out for yourself. Some recipes from this book are currently being reproduced in his food section The New Vegetarian in the Guardian paper, and are well worth checking out online.

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