The Modern Cook
Each week, Anna Jones uses interchangeable ingredients to create simple, stunning vegetarian meals.
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Anna Jones’s three-meal plan to get your 10-a-dayAnna Jones recipes: Fruit and vegetables are easily incorporated into breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack, making your recommended 10-a-day a doddle
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Sweet and savoury recipes for pancake dayAnna Jones recipes: It may be Pancake Day on Tuesday, but these ones can be enjoyed any time. A tower of these American-style rounds, glistening with fresh fruit, make a fine breakfast any day – or whip up a quick dinner from a rye-flour crepe stuffed with spuds and capers
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Anna Jones’s recipes for two winter piesAnna Jones’ pie recipes: To warm you through this wintry month, top a spiced lentil pie with comforting mash or cover a hearty vegetable and cheese pie with crisp celeriac rosti
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Anna Jones’s recipes for Valentine’s DayThe modern cook: Eschew the elaborate cliches and keep Valentine’s Day a straightforward – but delicious, and plentiful – affair with spaghetti and squash ‘meatballs’ and chocolate pots
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Anna Jones’s recipe for golden miso roast potato saladThe modern cook: Potatoes are magical in all their forms, but there’s nothing like a baked spud, full of flavour and comfort, to lift your spirits – here are my favourite ways to fill them
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Anna Jones’s recipes and tips for cooking with grains and seedsAnna Jones recipes: Grains are affordable, nutrient-rich and have a long shelf-life, just waiting to plump up a carrot and harissa salad, or add depth and bulk to this all-green miso soup
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Anna Jones’s recipe for homemade energy barsThe modern cook: For those of us who need a little snacking support between our three square meals a day, these chocolate chip bites, sesame and green olive bars and brownie energy bites offer a powerful pick-me-up without the sugar rush – and crash
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Anna Jones’ colourful Mexican recipes to bring sunshine in winterAnna Jones’ recipes: Mexican food, with its riot of colours and unabashed flavours, is just the thing for a grey January. Tacos piled with roast avocado and charred tomato salsa, or gooey figs and refried pinto beans will chase away the winter blues
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Anna Jones’ soup recipes get the year off to a fresh startAnna Jones recipes: Shake up your meals with healthy, fortifying food that tastes great too. Take these broths: one Thai-inspired, the other a ‘not-chicken soup’: remedial and delicious in equal measure
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Anna Jones’ aromatic curry pastes perfect for freezingAnna Jones recipes: Learning how to pack aromatics and spices into a pungent paste for freezing is a perfect way of adding an instant hit of peppery heat and punchy flavour to your winter curries
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Anna Jones’s vegetarian recipes for Christmas leftoversAnna Jones Christmas recipes: With a clever makeover, leftover green veg, nuts and fruits can be turned into something new and celebratory the next day ...
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Vegetarian Christmas: recipes from Anna JonesAnna Jones Christmas recipes: A festive feast that eschews the nut roast in favour of a celebratory pie with all the not-so-traditional trimmings will have the sprout-haters coming back for seconds and everyone fighting over the gravy. Welcome to meat-free Christmas
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Anna Jones’s recipes for warming winter drinksAnna Jones recipes: Sip on these winter cupfuls and you’ll radiate warmth. Choose from a honeyed spin on hot chocolate, a lightly spiced almond milk, apple juice spiked with rum and butter, and a fruity twist on glühwein
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Anna Jones’s party recipes for noodle bowls and dumplingsAnna Jones recipes: It’s party time, and where there’s drink, there should be food – which must be friendly, fresh and flavoursome, like these little peanut noodle bowls and mini squash dumplings
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Anna Jones’s recipes for making porridge more interestingAnna Jones recipes: There’s more to porridge than plain old oats, and you’re missing out if that’s all you eat for breakfast. Apples and maple butter, or a chocolate and pear combo, are guaranteed to sweeten the day. Who cares if that upsets tradition?
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Anna Jones’s homemade ricotta recipe and three things to cook with itIt’s easy to make your own ricotta from scratch. It’s ideal for a gentle herb and citrus dip, as the main attraction on a tray of honey-baked figs, or stirred through a plate of spicy spaghetti with chard, garlic and herbs
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Anna Jones’s easy home-made bread recipesAnna Jones recipes: Whichever way you cut it, no flavour compares to freshly baked bread straight from the oven. These upper-crust loaves use two types of flour to make a lurid beetroot and caraway soda bread and crusty seeded rye
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Anna Jones’ recipes for quick polenta bakes made two waysAnna Jones recipes: Whether baked slowly or finished off under the grill, polenta loves subtle spices, creamy butter and cheese and it’s perfect with earthy mushrooms and bitter radicchio ...
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Anna Jones’ recipes for whole roast squash and baked cauliflowerAnna Jones recipes: Serve up whole veg, crisp, golden and straight from the oven, for a wonderful meat-free centrepiece. Try a selection of squash stuffed with cereals or a savoury cauliflower baked in turmeric and coconut
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How to create a great bowl-based recipeAnna Jones recipes: Bowl food: unfussy, fast, adaptable meals you can eat on your lap with a spoon. Start with a favourite grain, build comforting combinations around a base flavour, then finish with a killer dressing
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Recipes for ricotta and romesco sandwiches and amazing veggie burgersAnna Jones recipes: Sandwiches shouldn’t be just for lunchtime. Piled high with sauces, pickles and relishes, they become a feast any time of day. And shake it up with bagels, buns and wraps
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Anna Jones’ quick and easy recipes for beans and pulsesAn Anna Jones recipe for students: Finally, a vegetarian chilli that can rival its meaty counterpart. And you’d be hard-pressed to find a cheaper, healthier, tastier meal than one built around dried pulses. Just remember to soak …
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Anna Jones’ quick and easy vegetable traybake recipesAnna Jones recipes: Lighten the load with a one-tray bake. Try a mound of creamy ricotta atop a tray of butterbeans, figs, radicchio and almonds, then experiment with our six steps to creating your own feast
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Anna Jones’ quick and easy recipes for jams and preservesAnna Jones recipes: Summer’s swansong leaves the hedgerows and fruit trees laden with sweet treasures. It’s jam season, but there’s no need to fuss with tricky techniques: these recipes for roast plum jam and a figgy preserve are the simplest ever
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Flavourful flatbreads and quick quesadilla recipesAnna Jones recipes: A flatbread is the epitome of versatility – just fill it with whatever you happen to have to hand. Here’s a caper, herb and egg mix and a speedy squash quesadilla to get you started
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Two refreshing late-summer soup recipesAnna Jones’ summer soup recipes: Lightness and brightness are the watchwords for summer soups. Try a coconut, lemongrass and lime broth, or courgette and baby gem bowlful to lighten up your day
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Vegetarian barbecue recipes to fire up the imaginationAnna Jones’ barbecue recipes: A marinade of harissa and lime turns grilled halloumi up a notch, while homemade lovage oil conjures a verdant summer from charred courgettes and mozzarella
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Anna Jones’s recipes with corn on the cobAnna Jones recipes: Cheap, delicious and a cinch to cook, these recipes for a bright brunch and an acidic green chutney will enhance the natural sweetness of this beloved summer staple
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Anna Jones’ recipes for two summer vegetable tartsThe modern cook: A tart made with crisp pastry and vegetable filling is perfect for a light summer supper. These two recipes, packed with seasonal courgettes and ripe tomatoes, are easy to make and hit the spot without leaving you full
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Anna Jones’ recipes for two raw vegetable saladsThe modern cook: Eating raw food sounds like purgatory to some, but at this time of year the absence of heat from the oven is welcome. These summer salads are unpretentious, refreshingly flavoursome and cooling
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Anna Jones’ recipes for simple salads with complex flavoursThe modern cook: Salads can be simple, but that doesn’t mean they should lack flavour. Introduce some more unusual leaves to bring your salads to the next level
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Anna Jones’s hearty grain salad recipesThe modern cook: A day of marching through meadows and soaking in the sea works up an appetite few flimsy salads can master. Introduce a fistful of grains to your summer salads to keep your summer adventures going
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Anna Jones’ picnic recipe for rainbow summer rolls with almond miso dipThe modern cook: Rice, in all its forms, is a wonderfully versatile building block for making a picnic spread. Here, rice paper wraps up some zesty summer tofu rolls and noodles bolster a cashew and coconut greens salad
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A better bruschetta: Anna Jones’s tartine recipeAna Jones recipes: Whether the toppings are scavenged from the fridge or your local supermarket, a tartine is probably the simplest possible vehicle for flavour you’ll find – try an egg, caper and herb combo, or English garden mix
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