Birthday Week – Part 2
After reading about our family tea party for the first born son, please do not think that my husband was short of celebrations on his birthday weekend. Weeks ago he ...
After reading about our family tea party for the first born son, please do not think that my husband was short of celebrations on his birthday weekend. Weeks ago he ...
There are people in this world who make lists, plan meticulously, have a tidy desk, and write menus for the week ahead. Sadly, I am not that person. I mean, ...
This is where your basic roast chicken goes on holiday and comes home with golden, crisp, roasted skin, fresh from the spice markets of the Levant.
Party rice is your VIP guest list in a bowl. My go to party dish for any celebration, this jewelled bowl of delight brightens up any table elevating the regular grain of rice from ordinary…
These golden nuggets of crunchy, garlicky saltiness are undeniably my favourite roast potatoes. Smashed, with incredibly crispy outsides and delicately fluffy insides are basically everything you could ever want your roasites to be.
This butter is an excellent way to use up any excess herbs lingering in the back of the fridge at the end of the week. It takes about 2.5 minutes to whizz up and will…
As a nod to my unrivaled love of all things Scandi, here is my recipe for salmon burgers. Light, bursting with flavour, moist, and so easy to throw together. They are as comforting as any…
It is hard to believe that we are already a month into the short asparagus season and it has taken me until now to post a recipe. Hard to believe, as despite its well known…
This sauce is the perfect accompaniment to salmon burgers, smoked, cured or roast fish, as a dressing for a hearty salad or potato salad or as an emergency dip.
Unlike roast chicken, for which I have no fewer than twelve favourite recipes, I genuinely thought I had salmon all sewn up. Completely satisfied with my fail safe method of cooking a whole side of…
Hot honey is a multi use condiment. Never without a jar lurking somewhere on the top shelf, this is a solid fridge basic.
Known by many as Chraymeh Fish (not such an appealing recipe title), this dish is essentially the shakshuka of the North African fish world. A delicious and colourful antidote to all the heavy meals of…
Flavoured butters are a fridge essential. They are fantastic melted on steamed or roasted vegetables, smeared onto fish fillets before baking, on steak or chicken or stirred into warm rice or grains before serving. I…
It’s no secret that I have a vast cookbook collection. It grows monthly with new found friends who live on my shelves and immediately become part of the furniture and the family. And while these…
A lot of anchovy hiding happens in my kitchen. I love serving anchovy laden sauces to the unenlightened haters, who simply comment on the delicious unidentifiable flavour of the dish. The aversion, as far as…
The nuttiness of freekeh marries perfectly with the sweetness of the roasted beets and salty freshness of the feta, making it a perfect side for roast chicken and fish or ideal on its own for…