I've spent an awful lot of my birthday doing what is one of my worst jobs — comparable to sifting in my value system — and that is filing. But it's all in a good cause, as I now have many, many Nigellissima recipes all clipped and stuck away in folders inside my big bold new pink file.
I've already made quite a bit of headway, but — impossible to escape one's personality — have equally been going a bit off-piste. One of my b-day presents was a spice mix I had never heard of, Vadouvan, which was bought for me in Brussels and is a kind of franco-curry mix. Obviously, I am dying to try it even though it has absolutely no place in Nigellissima.
Luckily, I have also been given a beautiful recipe note book and a pen fashioned to look like a blood-filled syringe so I can write my Vadouvan-inspired recipes in/with those. And if any of you have any recipes that use Vadouvan, please do post them in the recipe section.
