Wednesday, March 2, 2022

🍌 Banana recipes, Cointreau cocktails and ideas for March

Weekly recipes and kitchen inspiration from the olive team. View this email online

What we're cooking

Ingredient of the week: bananas

Banana fritters

Try our best banana recipes, including brand new additions such as banoffee cheesecake, golden banana fritters, classic banana split and more. Bananas are great for adding natural moistness and sweetness to your bakes, and they're high in energy, too.

Brilliant bananas

Test kitchen inspiration: March recipes

Spinach gnudi

Use fresh seafood, spinach leaves and citrus from your fruit and veg boxes or local greengrocer to make these seasonal dishes and bakes. Try Spanish-style hake with chorizo and oranges, or pillowy spinach gnudi.

Ideas for March

Baking ideas: easy traybakes

Toffee apple sheet cake

Traybakes are speedy, easy and can be really impressive when decorated intricately. Satisfy your sweet tooth with our toffee apple sheet cake or butterscotch and pretzel millionaire shortbread.

Crowd-pleasing treats

Healthy inspiration: nourishing dinner ideas

Cumin-crusted chicken with kale salad and hummus dressing

Make nutritious, well-balanced midweek meals easier with our recipes, including courgette tacos, cumin-crusted chicken and a vibrant salmon traybake.

Nourishing recipes

Happy hour: Cointreau cocktails

Singapore Sling Cocktail

This French liqueur is a delicious mix of sweet and bitter orange peels, and is perfect for adding a fruity lift to classic cocktails. Try it in one of our recipes, like a fruity mai tai, zesty frozen margarita or a sweet Singapore sling.

Cheers with Cointreau

Kitchen inspiration

Treat yourself: baking gifts

Best Baking Gift Ideas

Gift a present to your favourite baker or treat yourself with our versatile selection. The Secret Garden recipe journal has a beautiful green botanical design and space to write your own recipes, or a sleek silver cake turntable that's great for bakers who want to make their decorations more precise.

Best baking presents

Kitchen escape: Greek recipes

Greek lamb kleftiko

Create a Mediterranean mezze spread with spanakopita, Greek salad and herby garlic prawns. Dig into hearty dishes including a meaty moussaka with nutmeg-infused sauce and slow-cooked lamb kleftiko for your own Greek-inspired feast.

A taste of Greece

Coffee break: an introduction to coffee serves

An introduction to types of coffee serves

Want to learn the basics of coffee? Our expert, Celeste Wong, explains the most popular serves, as well as some alternative ones to order when you next visit a coffee shop.

Get the lowdown

Get away: 10 exciting UK city breaks

10 exciting UK city breaks

Escape to the lively city with our picks for foodie staycations around the UK. Mooch around Manchester's Northern Quarter, explore the market stalls and craft brews in and round Leeds, or enjoy your morning coffee with cardamom-laced buns on the Quartermile in Edinburgh.

Foodie staycations

Podcast: 10 things you need to know about Nikkei cuisine

Beef picanha yakiniku

In this week's episode, we interview Luiz Hara about Nikkei cuisine: the merging of Japanese cooking techniques with South American ingredients that's particular to Peru and Brazil.

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