One of the side-effects of international dating is that your English goes to the dogs. My vocabulary is currently a mixture of British and American with an occasional smattering of...
Since returning from England last Sunday, a few pounds heavier on the scales and a few pounds lighter in the wallet, I decided to attempt a detox week. When I...
I have shamelessly stolen the title for this post from a chapter in Ottolenghi’s second book, Plenty. Because the aubergine IS mighty. It takes on every teensy bit of flavour...
I’m not sure grapefruits are ever really in season in northern Europe, but according to Google they’re in season winter through June in the places they are grown (seemingly various...
I’d never really thought about the fact that spring onions are so called for a reason. So now that it’s spring (sort of – other than the fact that it’s,...
I keep a list of potential ingredients I might want to write about in my ‘Seasonal cooking’ posts. Swede was sort of penciled in for January, and then I ended...
Ahhh February, my old friend! We meet again. You know how I feel about February: it’s all bills and work and tax returns and Valentine’s drivel. And now Holland has...
The Honey Badger: a sweet, citrusy cocktail made with St German, honey, orange and prosecco. Guaranteed to chase away the January blues!
I was reading a blog or a cook book recently whose author said that they thought pomegranates looked ‘festive’. I was surprised, because I thought they looked sort of summery,...
