Marinated Anchovies
No trip to LA is complete without a stop at Gjusta bakery, where the tahini croissants are a as essential as their anchovies on toast. For anyone who knows me, they are fully aware that…
No trip to LA is complete without a stop at Gjusta bakery, where the tahini croissants are a as essential as their anchovies on toast. For anyone who knows me, they are fully aware that…
This smoked mackerel salad was one of the starters for my Popup at Pump Street Bakery, served alongside beetroot carpaccio and Pump Street focaccia. All of our fish on the menu, including arguably the best…
A creature of habit, I take great comfort in small rituals that punctuate my weeks and provide me with some much needed organisation and structure in my life. Mainly revolving around buying and preparing food,…
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…
As we catapult our way into shorter days, I like to preserve all the remaining hues of warm sunshine with a little multi-colour action in the kitchen and on our plates. These days you will…
This salad is really a choose your own adventure opportunity. Feel free to get creative with your ingredients, adding or subtracting at your will. I really enjoyed playing with the monochrome element here and it…
I never miss the opportunity for a tea party. This weekend is not only the BIG Jubilee, but it also almost coincides with a birthday in this house for the one whose favourite cake happens…
It’s negroni o’clock and time for these pages to be accessorised with a drink recipe (or two). This dangerously irresistible Fig Negroni recipe was the star of the show at my most recent Supper Club…
It is not every day that we are invited to be house guests. But we have some pretty special friends who have somewhat temporarily relocated to Cape Town, and graciously ...
When it comes to cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving I am a purist. This makes me an anomaly in my family, for whom Thanksgiving is the most important day of the year, trumping every holiday or…
Today's short and sweet newsletter is here with little chat but big info. It's been a crazy couple of weeks (sometimes life is like that) but I did want to share a little class news and…
Kohlrabi is one of those vegetables that for many years I really had no idea how to use. I knew I loved it in salads, or just thinly sliced with a little salt and lemon…
Tucked in among the leaves of my first cookery notebook, there is a scribbled on 3x5 file card with the ingredients for an apple cake. I originally salvaged the card thinking it was the famous family cake, but despite…
This was a week of firsts and to celebrate I made Upside Down Ginger Cake, an old favourite from one of the many recipe scrapbooks started all those years ago before the internet. With all…
I am so thrilled to open up my doors again for this new season of Building Feasts events and welcome you for more memorable conversations and feasts gathered around the table.
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…