Cosy Winter Warmers

Mick's easy peasy pumpkin soup with jamon iberico and rosemary oil(Recipe by Katie Quinn Davies ~ see below)Chorizo, lentil and roasted tomato soup(Recipe by Ali Irvine ~ see attached below downloadable word doc.) Slow cooked beef short ribs with creamy potato mash(Recipe by Ali Irvine ~ see attached below downloadable word doc.)Lamb and Guinness individual pies(Recipe by Ali Irvine ~ see attached below downloadable word doc.)Pancetta and thyme poussins with roasted vegetable broth(Recipe by Ali Irvine ~ see attached below downloadable word doc.)Pear and cinnamon frangipagne tartlets(Recipe by Ali Irvine ~ see attached below downloadable word doc.)Nutty hazelnut and almond pear crumble with elderflower cream(Recipe by Katie Quinn Davies ~ see below)Chocolate fudge cake with raspberries and amaretto cream(Recipe by Katie Quinn Davies ~ see below)All images © Katie Quinn Davies 2012Well thankfully we're almost in August and that means Spring is well and truly on it's way here in Oz which is really welcome news as this year's weather hasn't exactly been 'inspiring' to say the least... A few weeks ago I asked a friend and colleague; Ali Irvine to write some recipes for me for the blog as I have been bogged down in photo work and a bit of travel recently and found it pretty difficult to get the time to write some new recipes. Ali is a food editor who works for Real Living Magazine, she has come up with some lovely warming recipes which are prefect for seeing out the last few weeks of Winter. I am looking forward to sunnier days ahead filled with lighter, brighter shoots but for the moment these dishes are a perfect cosy welcome addition to week night dinners. After I styled and shot these recipes this week I had some of the ingredients left over so not wanting to throw away food unnecessarily, I came up with a recipe for a warming pear crumble and a hearty pumpkin soup ~ well actually the latter is my husband's creation and what we had for dins tonight, it was fab with a big chunk of warmed crusty sourdough and a glass of full-bodied red. Recipe for crumble, soup and devine chocolate fudge cake to follow asap. Katie x