One of my favourite traditions is the one that my friend Jo and I share, and that is to treat eachother to a birthday meal each year. We used to go with our friend Niasha who has now moved back to Sri Lanka, and sometimes Charlotte of Alphabet Adventures joins us, but we never miss it. This […]
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A Michelin star meal chez moi
Okay, so the Michelin inspectors haven’t been to visit … you might have guessed that despite the title I haven’t been awarded a Michelin star (I know, really), but I did cook a Michelin-star inspired meal for our friends Eve and Paul a little while ago and I wanted to share the menu with you. I’d only […]
St Patrick’s Day Irish stew, chocolate Guinness cake and Baileys ice cream
It’s St Patrick’s day, and even though I only have the most tenuous link to Ireland (I sit opposite an Irish girl at work), I am happy to take any opportunity to join in with the craic. Plus, it’s not every day you have the perfect excuse to make Nigella Lawson’s chocolate Guinness cake, which […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Pho-nomenal leftovers
I love it when a recipe comes together, and as I do have a tendency to keep going back to my old favourites, that doesn’t happen as often as I would like. Last week I made a Vietnamese Pho (noodle soup) for the first time, and it was a fantastically successful experiment, so I repeat […]