I’m like… eyebrow deep in a really cool writing project right now that’s taking up a lot of my cooking time. The process of recipe development means a lot of nights hovering around the Kitchen, a lot of scribbling on random scraps of paper around my Kitchen and then furious typing afterwards. For people who … Continue reading COURGETTE, CHICKPEA & PRESERVED LEMON STEW
Soup shows up in my Kitchen menu at least once a week. Health benefits? Being resourceful and using up ingredients? Wanting to feel comforted, all that ‘hug in a bowl’ crap food bloggers lean on? Possibly. But mostly I just can’t be arsed for anything else and I’m a Capricorn to the core and like … Continue reading ARTICHOKE & BUTTERBEAN SOUP WITH PARSLEY BUTTER
There is a small part of me that borders on the embarrassed when I caveat a recipe with an apology for it’s simplicity. But why, in terms of cooking, should simplicity even be scorned? Surely that’s what we’re looking for, right? Recipes that require the least amount of skill, the least amount of time, the … Continue reading POTATO ROSTIS
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 PURPLE KIMCHI
I’m sure right now we’re all in a position where we’re staring deep into the souls of our fridges and asking for answers. Now you may not find the cure to Coronavirus lurking behind that ketchup bottle and scraggly onion, but I’m almost certain you will find the ingredients you need to fling together a … Continue reading FRIDGE RAID TRAY BAKE WITH HALLOUMI & PESTO
As culturually insensitive and as culinary inappropriate as this may sound, I always think of dal as a confused bolognese. Hear me out. It straddles the line of curry… and bolognese… but is absolutely neither… but kind of both at the same time? Nothing like a bolognese in flavour or components but everything like it … Continue reading BEETROOT & COCONUT DAL WITH QUICK CUCUMBER PICKLES
Mathematics has always been something I’ve avoided. From mitching class in school to hang out in the fields to still using calculators to do basic sums. I avoid numbers as much as I can. However, I won’t need a maths class or a calculator to understand I’ve put on weight lately. I mean, I’m giving … Continue reading BROCCOLI & PEA SOUP WITH POACHED EGG
I am grief stricken when I don’t have a dipping utensil in the house. Whether this be bread, tortillas, pitas… any sort of carbohydrate I can dunk, dip and slather… I feel a type of ways when I don’t have it in the house. The good news is, if you have flour and water in … Continue reading WHOLEMEAL FLATBREADS WITH FETA & RED PEPPER HUMMUS
Here’s a promise to you. The most complicated thing I’m going to ask you to do here is chop and fold. How bout dat? A summer roll is fixed to be the freshest thing you’ll ever damn taste. It’s a tangle of crisp, crunchy, cool vegetables in an air-light rice wrapper that is not even … Continue reading VIETNAMESE ROLLS WITH PEANUT SAUCE
The other day I wrote a recipe for a stew that used the water of boiled sweet potatoes to make the stock. That water came from a mash recipe. This here recipe, is THAT mash. I made this mash last week whilst deep in the throes of woe. I was hungover to a point of … Continue reading GARLIC SWEET POTATO MASH WITH CUMIN BREADCRUMBS
