I promise you… GENUINELY… the addition of quinoa here has nothing to do with modern cliché. I mean, I’m a bearded food blogger with a French Bulldog, I do not struggle for modern cliché material. I even have a recipe for Butterbean Blondies, for God sake. But this recipe is genuinely a product of nothing … Continue reading ASPARAGUS & PEA QUINOA RISOTTO
Sick of me posting soup recipes? I would be too if they didn’t taste so damn good, give me a break. I feel confused when I don’t have a ziplock bag of frozen soup in my freezer. I make big ass batches, eat what I need that night, have another bowl for lunch the next … Continue reading GINGER CARROT SOUP WITH GARLIC BUTTER & CRISPY SERRANO
Whenever I’m feeling in between worlds, I don’t waste time floating… I just straddle both. It doesn’t bare questioning whether or not I am craving noodles because the answer will always be yes, but the context in which they are served is often pondered. Not for long, but definitely pondered. The pondering is whether or … Continue reading LIME COCONUT & BROCCOLI NOODLE SOUP
It surprises people when I tell them that I only started cooking a few years ago. In University, I literally lived on a diet of Super Noodles (Beef was my flavour of choice). In fact, my favourite meal was a Super Noodle SANDWICH. You read correctly. Sloppy beef noodles wedged between two heavily buttered, white, … Continue reading PORCINI & MISO KETTLE SOUP
A Fridge Soup is kind of my favourite, I like feeling smug in my own Kitchen. Like I’ve somehow shown my damn self who’s boss. Like ‘see… I told you I’d use up all those ingredients you bought’. I often get asked what some of my best Kitchen tips are. My first is always enough … Continue reading CARROT SOUP WITH HERBED FETA & PRETZELS
I get a bit twitchy when I don’t have noodles in the house. A lot of people fall back on pasta when they’re a little lamb lost in the Kitchen and searching for inspiration. While I do frequently swandive into the reassurance of pasta, noodles have my back more often than not. I see a … Continue reading COLD BROCCOLI NOODLE SALAD WITH PEANUT SAUCE
Nothing soothes me more than when my face is submerged in a bowl of seafood. Calming, healing, comforting, sometimes spicy enough to peel the skin from your skull, but always reassuring. The calm reassurance of a bowl of Thai fragranced seafood for me, comes in two parts. The first part being the fresh, herbal yet … Continue reading PRAWNS IN THAI CHILLI BROTH
When I make pasta, I cannot stop myself from making enough to feed an army. There’s nothing like the buttery taste of pasta and I am very proud of myself in the quantity of pasta I can eat in one sitting. As I told you before, I impressed an Italian chef who has been working … Continue reading CARROT & HAZELNUT PESTO
“There is no such thing as Italian cooking”. This was the first thing my mentor Marcella told me as we sat down for my first cookery lesson in Florence. Sat between two bookcases of thick cookbooks (some of which were her own) and cradling an espresso in her hands, Marcella told me that Italian cooking … Continue reading FLORENTINE RAGÙ
If I told you this was my hangover food you would either think I am lying or that I need to be sectioned. I can’t argue with the latter but I cannot agree with the former. This is the meal I made for myself when I was wallowing in the fiery pits of my hangover … Continue reading SHREDDED CHICKEN & PEA BROTH WITH HERB DUMPLINGS
