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A Really Useful Asian Broth with Awesome Add-Ins
Admission time. For a semi-professional cook (if we use the term loosely) I’m not the most brilliant stock maker. Sure, I can make a decent enough chicken stock, or even fish stock if called for, but...
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Grilled Lettuce – on its own, and in a salad with potatoes, cornichon and...
Can you believe I am asking you to grill lettuce? Isn’t that the one vegetable that we can just leave the heck alone? I know it sounds bonkers, but it really is quite something. As different to raw...
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Teriyaki Salmon Rice Bowl (+ vegan option)
Can’t you just taste it? The sweet sticky-salty gingery flakes of salmon cosied up with crunchy veg and gloriously starchy brown sushi rice? Wow. I don’t think I have ever used that many y’s in one...
View ArticleChilli Prawns and Vegetables with Soba Noodles
It has been some week. I am normally a very ‘even’ person – not much ruffles me. Perhaps it is because I can tick nearly all of the boxes that add up to a nice life. I won’t bore – or irritate – with...
View ArticleFish Pie – healthily decadent comfort food
If you are swanning about in short sleeves – or Heaven forfend, a tank top – you may think it a bit odd offering something as defiantly wintry as a fish pie. But if you live in the UK, especially...
View ArticleCuban-style Tofu (or Beef) Picadillo
Any of you reading this who are not from Florida or Cuba may be asking yourself, ‘What the heck is picadillo? Isn’t that a sin or naughty habit of some sort? What are you on about?!’ Well the latter is...
View ArticleTamarind Prawn Summer Rolls with Almond and Nam Chuoc Dipping Sauces
Today’s recipe (s) is one that I am really excited about sharing with you. I have had so much fun playing with/inhaling various versions over the past week. I really hope you want to try it. It hasn’t...
View ArticleBaked Veracruz Fish with a Twist
Fish. Love or hate kind of food. Like mushrooms or liver, fish will either elicit an “ooh, love fish,” or an “Ugh, smelly, horrible. Can’t stand the stuff”. Well, maybe not that black and white, but...
View ArticlePrawn, Tomato and Spaghetti Squash ‘Pasta’
Two weeks ago I was writing a post in bare feet and with a glass of freshly squeezed, tree-fresh orange juice at my elbow. Today, at a sparklingly sunny 5.5 C, I greet you with double layer socks, a...
View ArticleOrecchiette with Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Chili-Lemon Pangritata
Yay! We’ve reached March! Despite the fact that – at least in the UK – March can actually be more miserable than February (more wind, more rain), it does have one huge advantage – promise. With every...
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