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LIGHT BITES

This chapter is all about two things: lunch and small plates. Dishes to be shared, or smaller-sized meals when you’re peckish. Often, if I’ve been out during the day, I won’t want a large meal for dinner, so instead I’ll make something small or a “light bite”.

Aside from our inherited brunch culture, I like to think us Brits also love to have a little bit of everything. I certainly do, and when I meet my mum for lunch this is what we do. Lots of little plates to share so you get a taste of everything. This way of eating feels a lot like what the Swedes call lagom, translating more or less to “Not too little, not too much. Just right.”

In honour of my distant Scandinavian heritage, I dedicate this chapter to exactly that. A little bit of everything. Not too much, not too little. Just right.

In this chapter you’ll find all sorts of dishes that stand alone as a lunch or light dinner, plates that go well together to create a tapas-style menu, and even some nibbles and canapés. From the show-stopper Beetroot Salmon Gravadlax with Pickled Cucumber to the Chicken, Leek and Ginger Potstickers, my Munchies 3 Ways to the warming Roasted Tomato and Pepper Soup with Kale and Pistachio Pesto, these are recipes you’ll make time and time again.