Why my thyme is never wasted & neither is my food

wasted no food tastes of carolina

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…

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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 for my supper club. This Friday a few people will come to my house for the first of hopefully many ‘Dining At The Foot of the Hills’ events. The name is suggestive of my native Piedmont and the…

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Pescatarian under pressure

I finally can say I cook like my mother. One of my childhood memories is that of my mum coming home in a rush, putting down her bags and quickly starting washing and chopping vegetables. And at around 7pm, while I was sitting at the kitchen table doing my homework, the pressure cooker started hissing. Like an alarm bell,…

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This week, it’s all about pairings and canapés

Tastes of Carolina - It's all about pairings and canapés

A few days ago, while perusing for a birthday present for a friend in the lovely Prep cooking shop in Stoke Newington, I came across a brilliant book. ‘The flavour Thesaurus‘ by Niki Segnit is a wonderful compendium of “pairings, recipes and ideas for the creative cook” packed full with an array of entertaining anecdotes…

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A party weekend and a veg feast

So Halloween has passed. On Saturday night we had kids banging on the door for trick or treat while I was busy getting the party ready and my friends were doing their make up in the bathroom. It felt like being teenagers all over again, running up and down the stairs with make up and…

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