September 2025 favourites list

Welcome to this month’s collection, focussing on recipes. The change in season has brought with it a change to what I want to cook and eat. The start of the new academic year has brought with it a new cohort of keen, enthusiastic students. Unfortunately, it has also brought with it the dreaded start-of-term bugs. I have succumbed to a cold-flu-Covid type bug which has messed with me in ways I won’t be sharing any further.

To all my friends who are involved in education (be they teachers, lecturers, students, or pupils), I wish you Happy New Academic Year. To my Jewish friends, Happy Jewish New Year! I hope we all have a healthy, happy, successful, and fun year ahead! If you are not involved in education, consider this a friendly mid-year boost to your motivation and energy. 

Casserole pot with beans, tomatoes and Nduja

I hope you will enjoy these seasonal selections, and my photos of recent home cooking adventures. 

White beans with tomato and Nduja

Food articles

Jay Rayner reviews Apna Punjab in Southall and now I want kulchas and daaba dahl. https://archive.ph/BibI1

Kavey reviews the new edition of Sri Owen’s famous and influential cookbook on Indonesian food. https://www.kaveyeats.com/indonesian-food-sri-owen

Recipes

We’re getting into soup weather, so here are some high protein plant based soup ideas to snuggle into: https://www.stylist.co.uk/fitness-health/nutrition/high-protein-plant-based-soup-recipes/1017645

Lentils always make great protein rich soups, here Meike shares her recipe for a fennel and garlic flavoured lentil and tomato soup: https://www.dorothy-porker.com/filling-easy-fennel-lentil-soup/

The Man In Black Johnny Cash shared his recipe for Old Iron Pot chili, and now I an imagining him and June Carter Cash tucking in at home when he wasn’t on tour: https://www.uso.org/stories/86-from-the-uso-cookbook-johnny-cash-s-old-iron-pot-chili

Recipes for Salsa Macha, Salsa Verde, Salsa Roja and Pico de Gallo to bring colour and flavour for your next taco dinner: https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/cooking-tips-techniques/cooking/salsa-styles-recipes

 

Nduja and tomato tagliatelle

Sticking with the theme of Mexican inspired food, here is a recipe for Fajita inspired chicken stuffed peppers (the spicing and flavouring echo those used for fajitas): https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/7923409/fajita-inspired-chicken-stuffed-peppers/

Bibimbap, the colourful Korean dish, is the perfect way to get all your food groups in, while also looking great. This is Judy Joo’s recipe from her show Korean Food Made Simple: https://www.lovefood.com/recipes/57355/simple-traditional-bibimbap-recipe

Why do meals in a bowl seem ultra cosy? I can’t explain it, but this recipe for sesame chicken thighs, sesame ginger sauce, and cucumber salad sitting on a bed of rice is just what an autumn evening dinner is all about. https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a64020043/sesame-ginger-chicken-bowls-recipe/

Harissa and herbs flavour the tinned butter beans overnight in this marinated butter bean salad; one to make and take to work: https://www.realsimple.com/marinated-butter-bean-salad-11774401

 

Bangers and mash with veg and Yorkshire pud

The Urban Rajah shares his Uncle Guddu Chachu’s beloved family recipe for Gunpowder lamb patties; spiced mince lamb parcels encased in pastry: https://www.lovefood.com/recipes/57931/gunpowder-lamb-patties-recipe

Rukmini Iyer’s Cooking Tin cookbooks have made quick dinners for families easy. Here is her recipe for Crispy butter bean, chorizo and cos salad with coriander: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/aug/25/crispy-butter-bean-chorizo-cos-salad-quick-easy-recipe-rukmini-iyer

What you might have missed at Snig’s Kitchen

My recipe for Italian sausage pasta using the high meat content pork sausages available in Italian delicatessens:  https://snigskitchen.blogspot.com/2025/09/italian-sausage-pasta-recipe-post.html

 

Lamb and squash tagine with couscous

My mini blog post on Tom Kerridge's Spanish inspired recipe for Barbecue pork chops with spicy white beans: https://www.tumblr.com/snigskitchen/790710841641205760/barbecue-pork-chops-ms-recipe-ms

My Doll brand Hello Kitty Dim Sum Japanese prawn flavour instant noodle review: https://snigskitchen.blogspot.com/2025/08/doll-hello-kitty-dim-sum-noodle-review.html

Please note: as with every monthly Favourites List, all of these items have been selected by me simply because I love them. I do not receive any money, benefits in kind or other incentive for posting these links or recommendations.