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 […]
Weekend breakfast
I had this on Saturday morning, squashed onto a tiny table in a steamy Lowry & Baker at the top of Portobello Road. It was so nice I made it at home on Sunday morning […]
Veal and porcini ragu
Inspired by the recent trip to Rome and lunch at Artusi in Peckham the weekend after! I was going to make this with sausage too, but the sausage I got turned out to be really […]
Arancini (Italian fried rice balls)
Shame about the boring photo but I made all these Italian dishes in one night and the photography took second place to delivering them all in an edible state. The arancini were a lot more […]
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