Okay, let me first say that even French people from different regions of France argue about what constitutes a cassoulet, so it is unlikely that anyone from Toulouse will mark mine out as just like grandmere used to make. But my cassoulet has most of the requisite ingredients, it’s easy to make and it tastes […]
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Viva Espana
Apologies for the recent silence (which you may, in fact, be grateful for) but I have been away in beautiful Brugge and also been suffering with a nasty cold, so not really fancied being sat in front of the laptop typing about food. I am still sick with that nasty taste in your mouth you […]
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Hainanese Chicken Rice
I am basically a lazy cook. Recipes which appeal to me are those which have ingredients already in my house; that are simple enough for me to cut corners with (I don’t want to have to get the food processor out to chop those ingredients when I have to spend ages washing it up afterwards); […]
A thousand leaves, and a thousand calories
We had some friends over for Sunday lunch at the weekend, and it didn’t take me long to decide that I was going to cook roast beef and all the trimmings. Pudding was a bit harder to decide on, as I didn’t want anything too heavy. I asked people on my Facebook page but they […]
You can’t beat a homemade custard cream
A couple of years ago, I had a bright idea to liven up everyone’s Fridays at work with “elevenses” – each team member would take turns to bake or buy a little treat for everyone else to have at 11am every Friday. I thought it would be a good chance to take 20 minutes out […]
Food for when you have eaten too much chocolate
My diet hasn’t exactly been restrained over the last few days / weeks (months) and so because I have a 1.2 kilo chocolate Easter egg to munch on, I decided to be relatively healthy last week. What I mean is that I decided to practically starve myself at breakfast and lunch, go to the gym, […]
Creme egg cheesecake
I can’t remember where I first saw the phenomenon that is creme egg cheesecake, but as soon as I did I knew I had to make it. I googled various recipes which are available online, and ended up using a few tips from each one I found to make the following recipe. I didn’t think […]
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Easter eggstravaganza
Okay, so I don’t even know why I decided to cook so much food this weekend, considering I knew that I would be eating one or two teeny weeny bits of chocolate egg … but I did, and in between bouts of Easter egg gorging (the less said, the better), the following made reasonably balanced […]
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A perfect night of gin and vietnamese
As I got a little windfall from work last month, I decided to treat Andrew to dinner. I was expecting him to request steak (I had my eye on Hawksmor or MASH) but he wanted Vietnamese for dinner, which I was very happy with as well! We used to live in Islington and adored Viet […]