I am not sure there is much better combination than a cream tea – warm scone (without fruit for me), a huge dollop of clotted cream topped by some strawberry jam. Even better for me is that you get a pot of tea so you can add your own milk … I am super fussy […]
Cassoulet a la Knatt
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 […]
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 […]
Cooking up a Storm book review
One of the only good things about my long tube commute is the chance i have to read books – on the odd occasion I actually manage to get a seat on the tube, I like to switch on my kindle and escape into another world for 30 minutes, until I realise I am just […]
Mishkins ‘kind of Jewish deli’
Okay, so I don’t want to turn this into a restaurant review blog, because let’s not forget this is all about MY amazing (ahem) food. But after a couple of years of barely eating out at all (saving to buy our first house / saving to buy things to go into our first house), we’ve […]
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 […]