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Mini Fig & Papaya Upside-Down Olive-Oil Cakes

heylollyUpdated on November 3, 2025November 2, 2025

Fig and papaya upside-down cakes: muffin-tin bake, olive oil + Greek yoghurt, glossy fruit tops, tender crumb. A quick, no-butter dessert.

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October Store Cupboard Staples. Pantry-to-plate, anytime.

heylollyUpdated on October 30, 2025October 30, 2025

The jars and tins I actually cooked with this month: capers + anchovies, coconut milk, white miso, butter beans, dark chocolate and banana-maple PB, my October store-cupboard staples, with links to the recipes.

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Pici Nottingham Review. Mini Pasta Plates That Are Authentically Delicious!

heylollyUpdated on October 15, 2026October 29, 2025

This Pici Nottingham review finds a room built for appetite: generous “mini” plates, hot-from-the-pass pacing, and staff who keep things human. Consequently, it’s the kind of place where “one more plate?” feels inevitable and yes, I’m already plotting a return.

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Butternut Squash Soup with Sage Brown Butter. Autumn in a Bowl.

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Butternut Squash Soup with Sage Brown Butter: roasted squash, nutty butter, crisp sage, and pumpkin seeds. Silky, golden, weeknight-easy.

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Apple and Miso Caramel Crumble Pots

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Apple and miso caramel crumble: warm Gala apples, miso-salted caramel, sandy crumble. Fast dessert with grown-up depth and serious spoon appeal.

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Mushroom Gnocchi Soup – A Weeknight Warmer

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Creamy, comforting mushroom gnocchi soup with thyme, garlic, and parmesan — hearty, earthy and ready in 35 minutes.

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Sweetcorn and Butter Bean Enchiladas with Chipotle Tomato Sauce

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The Enchiladas That Refuse to Behave (and Taste Better for It) I have never once made these enchiladas neatly. Not once. The tortillas rip, the …

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Dear Diary. The Stillness Between Seasons at Clumber Park Walled Kitchen Garden

heylollyOctober 15, 2025October 14, 2025

Autumn at Clumber Park’s walled kitchen garden – mist, apples, and that gentle pause between abundance and rest.

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Passion Fruit Yoghurt Loaf with Cream Cheese Frosting

heylollyOctober 14, 2025October 9, 2025

Passion fruit yoghurt loaf with cream cheese frosting, tangy, moist, unapologetically pretty. A sunshine bake disguised as a loaf.

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Garlic Butter Roast Chicken with Lemon Cavolo Nero, Crispy Potatoes & Dijon Cream Sauce

heylollyOctober 12, 2025October 9, 2025

Garlic butter roast chicken with cavolo nero, crispy potatoes and Dijon cream sauce — messy, indulgent, and far too easy to eat half while cooking.

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Apparently, making food look effortless requires a Apparently, making food look effortless requires a rather extraordinary amount of effort. 🎬

A 5am start, a kitchen temporarily converted into a film studio, three cameras, enough crockery to open a small restaurant and more footage than any sensible person could possibly need. 🙃

And that’s before the editing begins.

All in the name of a good dinner.

A little glimpse behind the scenes at Hey Lolly. There’s the planning, the recipe development, the endless camera angles, the frankly ridiculous number of photographs taken to find the one and, of course, a mountain of washing-up.

And yet, I absolutely love it. 🫶

Taking a recipe from a scribbled idea to something worth sharing. The beautiful seasonal ingredients, the little details, the satisfaction of seeing it all come together and the considerable advantage of getting to eat the evidence afterwards.

I’ve even made a rare appearance on the other side of the camera. 🙈 The sous chef, meanwhile, continues to contribute very little beyond moral support and operating as a four-legged Hoover. 🤣🐾

Plenty of lovely new recipes coming your way. In the meantime, what would you like to see more of behind the scenes?

Lolly x

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Time for a little dish & tell. 🍷🥧🐷 Pig’s head, b Time for a little dish & tell. 🍷🥧🐷 

Pig’s head, braised ox cheek… buttery greens. Tell me November’s arrived without telling me November’s arrived.

There’s a lot to love about Winsome. A kitchen in full flight, a dining room with an electric buzz and staff who seem genuinely delighted to have you there.

It’s a rather cool setting for a menu that makes absolutely no concessions. Rich, gutsy British cooking, it will positively encourage you to take a second glass of red and makes the onset of November seem considerably more appealing.

The terrine? Excellent.

The ox cheek pie? Everything you’d hope for beneath that golden crust.

And the madeleines? Well they have been occupying an unreasonable amount of my thoughts ever since… 

A very good reason to be in Manchester. As if one needed another.

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I have 47 ideas for dinner until somebody actually I have 47 ideas for dinner until somebody actually asks me what I fancy. Then suddenly I’ve never eaten a meal in my life. 🤷‍♀️

Fortunately, past me was considerably more organised and actually wrote a few things down.

So here’s a little inspiration from the Hey Lolly recipe archives. All tried, tested and absolutely worth making again.

Recipes over on heylolly.co.uk 🍋

I’ll still spend twenty minutes deciding, obviously... 

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Another day, another unnecessary amount of burrata Another day, another unnecessary amount of burrata. 💁🏼‍♀️

This time, with cheat’s sun-dried tomatoes (an hour in the oven, considerably less Mediterranean sunshine required), homemade pistachio pesto and a golden, lemony basil crumb.

A little taste of Puglia, courtesy of a British postcode and a fairly enthusiastic approach to olive oil.

Glug generously 😏

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🍂 1 November. We have a peculiar habit of keeping 🍂 1 November.

We have a peculiar habit of keeping things ‘for best’. The beautiful ceramics stay in a cupboard, the linen is saved for guests, and the candlesticks only seem to clock in when December arrives.

I’ve never quite seen the sense in it. An ordinary lunch is as good an occasion as any. And that, broadly speaking, is the spirit of November on Hey Lolly.

There’s going to be a bit more Mediterranean cooking for colder days, quite a lot of butter beans, roasted vegetables and, inevitably, more burrata... 

There will be a few more reviews, alongside some new places and discoveries worth sharing. And since November apparently makes discussing Christmas socially acceptable, I’m turning my attention to the festive table. Think beautiful ceramics, thoughtful little finds and food made for lunches that have absolutely no intention of ending on time.

My Mediterranean Christmas table edit will be published shortly, with plenty more seasonal inspiration to come.

Delicious and easy food to make at home, interesting places to visit and a reminder to stop saving the nice things for special occasions.

The good plates are coming out. 🤎

Lolly x 🕯️

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