During my time long distance commuting my lovely boyfreind was very good to me, preparing dinner most nights. Now I have more time at home, I am doing a pretty (...)
It seems a bit wrong to be eating steamed puddings in July but the weathers been pretty odd and I really need some comfort food at the moment to power me (...)
A number of months ago I wrote about the builders getting through mounds of cake while fixing my snag list and my foolproof 175 cake. recipe which can be (...)
Slow cooked pork shoulder has become a favourite in this house and on the blog from the links – with chipolte sauce, jerk seasoning , five spice , gochujang ( (...)
A morning visit to Bristols Slow Food Market held on the first Sunday of each month the source of much inspiration . This Sunday , heaps of faggots from Brown (...)
This is a lovely terrine for spring , made with “cheap of chips” ham hocks.It makes a really nice starter on wholemeal toast , as an addition to a Ploughmans, (...)
Polenta in cakes this time I am, this is the kind of sticky cake you see in pattisseries I think it looks like sunshine and tastes of summer warm lemons. You (...)
I have had a lot of experience of Korean Cuisine there don’t seem to be a lot of Korean restaurants, however a few months ago I had Kimchi , fermented pickled (...)
Tagine are traditionally slow-braised at low temperature, ate mounds of them during a holiday in Marrakech , usually I will cook a tagine in the slow cooker, (...)
I don’t think I have ever used five spice before but it was a delicously rich and in depth. . Five spice is made from “Chinese cinnamon” , cassia buds, (...)
Home alone tonight and since the oven was on for a long time today on a low heat making meringues and cake. I decided it was sensible to secrete at the bottom (...)
I was wittering about why I blog on Radio Nottingham . The other guest was another Nottingham blogger also called Becky ,a professional blogger and author who (...)
Heading into her fourth month Em will go at the most three hours between feeds (that includes during the night). sometimes if she is feeling poorly or having a (...)
A couple of weeks ago in Bristol I was sniffing around St Nicks Market bookstore and picked up a copy of Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cookery , this was a book that (...)
I first became addicted to these rice paper rolls in an underground mall near my work when I lived in Toronto. They were incredibly simple just letttuce , (...)
This dish has it’s origins in my plan for a dinner of tapas , but after a busy week cooking a lot of little dishes was not quite on the cards .So I scaled the (...)
Last night as we were tucking into dinner my lovely boyfreind said outloud “Sometimes I worry that everyone will find out how delicious liver is and it will (...)
After the success of a Brinjal pickle over the summer I wondered if I could repeat the success with another Indian pickle favourite Lime Pickle. I am guilty of (...)
What to do with a sad looking cabbage hiding in the vegebox after Christmas , well I say stuff it the weather is getting cold with snow predicted so it seems (...)
This week a very nice researcher from BBC Nottingham sent me a message , they were doing a piece on foraging and she wondered if I was able to show her some (...)
Warm salad of new potatoes, asparagus, smoked mackerel, wild garlic and egg
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Not only is it the new asparagus season but the first new potatoes are appearing from Cornwall . With thin papery skins , sweet and delicious they soak up (...)
Though it is supposed to be summer the torrential rain and high winds are making me crave warmer food, this soup was a welcome treat after a short stroll along (...)
Pork terrine with picked pears and celeriac remoulade
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A lovely starter for Saturday dinner ,it can be entirely prepared in advance which means I can spend the weekday evenings pottering about making food but have (...)
Yesterday was just about my ideal day , delcious breakfast, long walk full of the joys of spring; lambs skipping everywhere , meadows full of flowers ,picnic (...)
