Supplemental #8 | July's recipe roundup

What's been cooking in the papers and online over the last month?

Claire Thomson’s courgette baba ganoush, for MOB

Summer ingredients, summer style

Welcome to this month’s Supplemental. I’m pleased to note that we are finally in summer eating mode.

Typically, this means three things:

1. seasonal ingredients that intrinsically hit the spot;

2. a style of cooking and eating that suits the weather; and

3. a bunch of random things that depart from (1) and (2), but which we’ll crave at some point.

Oh and (4), fruity desserts and treats.

I’ve been doing this round-up for the better part of a decade now, and the July and August recipes always have us covered. IT’S LIKE THEY KNOW SUMMER HAPPENS EVERY YEAR. Crazy. Good things follow — read on.