Recipes & Other Stories
Cheese it’s cold tonight!
If you haven’t realised it yet, I love cheese. Since I was a child and I used…
Cold & rainy? Start your feast with a flan
Last Friday I hosted my first Dining at the Foot of the Hills event. It was a…
After a lot of tasting and experimenting…
Countless vegetable flans later, after tasting and experimenting with a long list of ingredients, I’m (nearly) ready…
Pescatarian under pressure
I finally can say I cook like my mother. One of my childhood memories is that of my mum…
Pasta love in 2015…& a great tool for the new year
Pasta. Just as rice conjures up the image of tiny bouncing grains, with pasta the name itself…
This week, it’s all about pairings and canapés
A few days ago, while perusing for a birthday present for a friend in the lovely Prep…
A risotto with wood fired umami & a fennel salad to match
At the weekend we lighted up the wood fired oven and had a roast. The weather was grim…
Morocco VS England on a bed of rigatoni
This dish brings together Italian heritage, North African influences and a British staple vegetable, the sweet and…
A party weekend and a veg feast
So Halloween has passed. On Saturday night we had kids banging on the door for trick or…
Caledonian cream Italian style with Amaretto and biscotti
I had this in mind for a while, since I listened to the Kitchen Cabinet show with…
