The simplest pasta dishes are often the best. Think cacio e pepe, think carbonara, think amatriciana, think gricia. Simple dishes, delivered to the mouth via the gorge vehicle that is pasta. Thank you pasta. Not that I’m placing this recipe in the same canon as the Four Pastas of Rome, but what I’m saying is … Continue reading SUNDRIED TOMATO & ANCHOVY PASTA
There is absolutely no need to make your own butter at home. Shop bought butter is absolute fine – a marvel of dairy brilliance, if you ask me – and is there, rectangle and modestly golden, ready to be scraped across hot toast whenever you need it. Yet here I am, asking you to whisk … Continue reading CARAMELISED LEEK & SMOKE SALT BUTTER
It took me this long to learn that traditional Caesar salads do not come with chicken. Did you know this? I feel like this is something that happened behind my back, because every memory or recollection I have of a Caesar salad is that of chicken. Continue reading MY CHICKEN CAESAR SALAD
Elevate your baked white fish with a simple, flavourful glaze. A mix of olive oil, lemon, garlic, paprika, cumin, honey, and thyme enhances the fish’s natural taste while keep it tender. Continue reading A SMOKEY HONEY GLAZE FOR WHITE FISH
I really hate it when food writing gets a little bit smutty and uncouth because there’s no need. But I also understand that – ‘I’m about to give you a meat rub that will change your life’ – is a sentence that is both smutty and uncouth yet wholly necessary at the same time. Let … Continue reading BROWN SUGAR MEAT RUB (AND A QUICK LEEK & POTATO SOUP)
As I’ve become more mindful this year of making better and healthier choices, I’ve noticed that for some strange reason, this means, eating everything in a bowl. Is it the restorative zen-like feeling of cupping a bowl to bring in that temple like feeling? Not really. Is it that I can pack it with lots … Continue reading SOUPY CARROT LENTILS WITH DILL
I promised a less indulgent new year. Yes I did. I started 2025 with a soup. The first recipe I wrote, the first thing I made, and the first step in a series of good intentions was indeed, a damn soup. This soup, to be exact. Good though it was, let’s be honest, sometimes the … Continue reading SODA BREAD IN A POT
Sunday mornings are often reserved for waking up, refusing to surface until you absolutely must, 12 cups of coffee from my Wonder Woman mug and then a cannonball movement through the door to crack on with whatever the day has in store for me. However, I will always find time to throw something hot in … Continue reading EGGS POACHED IN CHILLI TOMATOES
Chocolate Orange & Rum Cake. In time for Easter, I want to present to you my lazy boy’s answer to chocolate cake. Seldom do I bake. I’m a very, very lazy baker. For as much as I love cooking, baking is something I sparsely have time for purely because of its precision. I won’t go … Continue reading CHOCOLATE ORANGE & RUM CAKE
I’ve made many a cheesecake in my Kitchen and despite there being 4, 200 something ways to do one – I always find myself slinking back to the one method. Naturally, this method is both the quickest and the easiest (pardon my impatience and idleness) but more so because I find this method to … Continue reading WHITE CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE WITH GINGER BISCUIT BASE
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 