This week I have felt slightly out of sorts in the kitchen. I haven’t felt particularly inspired. As I am watching my weight I tend to have the same kind of meals again and again: stir-fries with lots of veg, plainly cooked meat with vegetables, plus healthy meals I had previously made and frozen. They […]
A fishy feast
I love having friends for dinner. Some people hate the idea of spending the day cooking, but I really enjoy pottering in the kitchen, making (hopefully) tasty things for people to eat. I also like planning the menu in advance – poring over my cookery books, choosing different starters, main courses and puddings which will […]
What happens when you leave the freezer door open all day
Yep, you can probably guess what happens when you do something as thick as that … especially when you do something like that on the hottest day of the year so far (okay, I appreciate that doesn’t normally mean much here in the UK but it was pushing 30 degrees last week so it was […]
Making friends with filo, plus a cheeky fish curry
My diet has not been brilliant recently, and the pounds have slowly crept on. Instead of eating well 80% of the time and having treats 20% of the time, the rule has reversed and I have been scoffing goodies much more than I should. Well, these things happen – I just realised I needed to […]
Lambs and lemons
We had friends come over for Sunday lunch a couple of months ago (Sunday lunch is the new BBQ considering the weather in this country, don’t you know!) and it got me to thinking of what my favourite Sunday lunch is. Actually, it might not be surprising to discover, I like them all. Except roast […]
Foodie penpals – June 2013
I am not sure where I first came across the idea of Foodie Penpals, but as soon as I read about it I was immediately struck by the brilliant idea of sending and receiving parcels of food in the post from a fellow foodie. I signed up with This is Rock Salt for the June […]
Sausage rolls and brownies make a party (plus booze, obviously)
It was my birthday last week, and so slightly depressingly I had to update my ‘about’ page on this blog to aged 37. But getting another year older has great advantages, most particularly of the present variety. Oh how well my friends and family know me – almost every present was food-related, and every card […]
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A comfort food: fish pie
One of my biggest restaurant disappointments was when I visited Richard Corrigan’s Bentleys for a much anticipated meal many years ago. I had come across him on the first series of Great British Menu and was immediately drawn to his simple style of cooking: using the best fresh and local ingredients, fussing with them as […]
Cooking with mother
When people ask how I first got interested in cooking, I usually say that when I went to university and had to feed my greed, I taught myself how to make food that I enjoyed eating. It also helped that I started going out with Andrew in my second year, and he was also greedy […]
Cymru am byth
A Welsh feast, cooked by a Londoner, for the French … still with me? After our week on holiday in Somerset and Wales, eating traditional, local food and collecting cookbooks and treats from every place we visited, a Welsh themed meal was the only option when cooking for my lovely French friends, Odile and Sophie. […]