Winter comfort food
This concoction was born the day after a dinner, via the combination of a stale baguette, leftover bruschetta topping and a bag of grated gruyere. It brought the baguette back to life and has become […]
Eggs with spinach, avocado and tomatoes
A friend in work has been doing a fasting diet recently. He’s been instagramming images of the food he’s been making while on the diet and it all looks amazing. He’s inspired me to move […]
Pasta alla Norma
I went to Switzerland for a weekend recently and while I was there my hosts introduced me to a Sicilian pasta called Pasta alla Norma. Who’s Norma, you may ask? The story goes that in […]
Smoked mackerel pate
“I was eating sitting at the table, we’ve finished dinner, we’re now having dessert, and we’re having the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you’ve ever seen, and President Xi was enjoying it, and I […]
Red pepper and pecorino pasta
So this small red pepper had been sitting on the middle shelf of the fridge for some time, blinking into the light, looking out expectantly every time the door was opened, silently shouting, “roast me!” […]
Sugar free chocolate brownies
I managed to persuade some of my colleagues to join me on Sugar Free February, which is a Cancer Research initiative to encourage people to ditch refined sugar for a month. There are some serious […]
Today’s delivery – you have one missing item: blinis
So you’re all set for an evening of fizz, films and blinis and then you receive THAT text: the Blini Shortage of 2017 (BS2017) has arrived. So I asked myself the question anyone faced with […]
The blood bath (and Italian-ish Cottage Pie)
When I started this blog I said that I was going to record the disasters as well as the successes. This was the biggest disaster to date in that it resulted in me losing a […]
Mushroom and spinach frittata – Atkins-friendly
Pasta and rice have been cooked a lot in my house lately, which has completely undone all the work from last year and lost pounds have been piled back on. Well done me. So pasta, […]
10-minute pasta – tomato, spinach and prawn
This is dead easy and quick. I think I prefer it without the prawns actually. And it could have taken a bit of chilli too. What to use – serves 1 A handful of shallots […]
