These toasts calls for not much more than chopping a tomato, whisking cheese and mixing oil with a herb. This is the breakfast you make when you can’t be bothered, but you need to appear to be. In other words, this is what I have made for my Mam when she has visited on a … Continue reading TOMATO & WHIPPED GOATS CHEESE TOASTS WITH BASIL OIL
A Bloody Mary once saved my life and I’m not even lying My friends and I rented a big ass mansion in the Valleys one cold weekend (there was a hot tub, we got very pissed) and I woke up feeling like I wanted the ground to swallow me up. I don’t do well with … Continue reading BLOODY MIKEY
If I believed in God, I would believe he is infinite in his blessings. And if I were devoted to such a religion, I’d have to believe that mashed potato was one of said blessings. Dramatic? No. Until you have felt cold mushed potato in your palm being squished into a ‘cake’ then you have … Continue reading MARMITE & PARMESAN POTATO CAKES
I tend to have a sixth sense when it comes to fussy eaters. When someone tells me that, for instance, they don’t like seafood, their plight as an eater is automatically established. I know that the fussiness is strong in this one. This not a fact, just a musing of mine own experiences. And I … Continue reading FRIDGE PICKLES & QUICK KIMCHI
Have we discussed my compulsive need to boil potatoes lately? I don’t think we have. I constantly have a need for little, tiny, baby boiled potatoes in my fridge. Throwing them in a pot of salted water, boiling until tender, allowing them to cool and dry until completely stone cold, and then stowing them away … Continue reading FRIED POTATOES & KIMCHI
Did you know this was actually one of the earliest recipes I ever posted on this blog? Not this exact one, but something similar that I have now adapted. Because in the spirit of Ms. Laurie Colwin and all of the misguided adventures she writes about in ‘Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen’ (1988), … Continue reading BUTTERMILK PANCAKES
Like an appreciation for early nights and not being able to get out of a chair without groaning, bread baking came to me a little later in life. And thank God it did. I never want to give unnecessary steps to my readers because I never want to waste your time, energy, or money but … Continue reading HONEY BEER BROWN BREAD
Jam. Marmalade. Chutney. Compote. Preserve. They’re all very different things, I know, but for me, so long as I’ve got a dollop of sweet, tangy, syrupy fruit to slather on toast or sneak into bakes, then I really don’t care what we call it. This recipe here is basically a jam because by it’s very … Continue reading QUICK FROZEN FRUIT JAM
“It’s just cheese on toast.” Let any food writer, that is not Welsh, write a recipe for rarebit and they will somewhere, without fail, denounce it down to being ‘just cheese on toast‘. Well in that case, a Mazda is just a car. A mansion is just a house. And Beyoncé is just a singer. … Continue reading CHARCOAL SALT RAREBIT
There are some breads in life that are designed to fulfil a prophecy bigger than it’s intended bake. A big, pillow rustic loaf of white bread, for example, is a stalwart bread. It’s eager to be toast, it’s ready for sandwiches, it wants to be fried, it’s hoping it’ll be soaked in a boozy custard … Continue reading ROSEMARY, OLIVE & MILK BRINE FOCACCIA
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 