Posts Tagged ‘cooking’
Why my thyme is never wasted & neither is my food
This week I am proud I wasted no food. I have to admit organising my meals isn’t always easy, and that this week I ended up with lots of my lovely Food Assembly vegetables a bit past their best.That’s why I hope the recipe featured below will inspire you to look beyond the soup for…
Read MoreEmergency meal planning VS last minute creativity. And a case of missing prawns.
Having a broken foot made me realise the importance of proper meal planning and its difference with creating meals out of what’s in stock. I’m relying more than ever on my Abel & Cole weekly delivery and I find myself going over the order again and again, thinking about our week’s schedule and possible meal…
Read MoreSo this was my summer….
Very little time, a faulty iPad, tragedy in my kitchen and a broken foot: these are my excuses for nearly four months of amazing adventures but deafening silence, in which I kept on posting on Instagram and Twitter, but without updating my blog. So what happened? In…
Read MoreThese fresh rolls are made for eating, that’s just what you’d do
Since the long weekend, I acquired a new food addiction. They’re delicious, easy to make and incredibly moreish: I’m talking about Thai-style fresh spring rolls, filled with rice vermicelli, lots of vegetables, avocado, chillies, basil, mint and parsley. I will tell you exactly what I used, although you are encouraged to try new combinations. I…
Read MorePan fried smoked bass marinated in blood orange juice with hazelnut rich salad
I made this dinner after reading up a recipe for a yummy salad on the Saveur newsletter, attracted by the fact it used lots of hazelnuts. My father grows them everywhere he cannot grow grapes: in Piedmont we have a particular type of hazelnut, the round shaped Tonda Gentile, which is highly prized…
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