Recipes & tips for filling bottomless pits
I came across Burrata cheese for the first time at a cookery masterclass run by Finish dishwasher tablets with chef Florence Knight. The Leiths-trained head chef at Soho restaurant Polpetto might have been beautiful and tiny, but she was a steely sort so there was no messing around and any corner cutting like using a [...]
The restaurant Mon Plaisir is set in Monmouth Street which feels almost Parisienne, with sophisticated lingerie emporium Coco De Mer next door and ultra chic Covent Garden hotel across the road. If you were planning a romantic luxury London weekend break for your Valentine, then this is the street i’d be checking into. And you [...]
Mmmmm a big fat halloumi sandwich… imagine having the power to actually create the salty squeaky cheese that is peeking out of this bread by yourself… I never thought to try making my own cheese until I saw a demo at Lakeland over the summer and couldn’t believe how simple it looked. Lakeland kindly kitted [...]
Chiswick High Road was the first place I lived when I arrived in London in the 1990s, so i’ve always been very fond of hanging out there. These days it’s just a bus ride away from where we live in Ealing so we can pretend we’re almost residents Jamie Oliver’s ever expanding portfolio of restaurants [...]
I had a lovely email ping into my inbox a few weeks ago from Ben May, asking if I’d review his family’s latest cookbook Nosh for busy mums and dads. Bypassing conventional publishers, the May family decided to go it alone producing Nosh for Students 10 years ago when Ben was away at university learning [...]
My raspberry red KitchenAid, my pride and joy, the kind of gadget that has to sit out on the work surface to be universally adored, the one that makes you feel like Nigella, yes that one, it’s been banished from my kitchen. It’s taken me a little while to come to terms with it. I [...]
If you’re looking for a bit of inspiration on what put in your shopping trolley over the festive season, here’s a quick round-up of some of the bits and pieces i’ve been trying out over the last month… Ferrero Rocher booze and choc matching We felt like we’d scored an invite to the ambassador’s party [...]
I’ve worked a lot with Hotel Chocolat since starting my blog back in 2010 and have been consistently impressed with the quality and taste of their stuff. So I hope you don’t mind me sharing a nice guest post from them with you, to let you know what kind of treats they’ve got in store [...]
Ah Christmas, that time of year when we desperately try to scramble our finances to fund another pile of toys for our dear offspring and wrack our brains for inspiration. So I thought I’d do a round-up of a few of the must-have gifts i’ve been reviewing and buying along the way: Wappy Dog on [...]
The huge juggernaut that is the Great British Bake Off just keeps on trucking, rolling out brilliant telly and making stars of some pretty good home bakers. This last series was compelling stuff – the steely blue-eyed Paul Hollywood playing attractive silver fox bad cop to twinkly eyed kind Mary Berry’s good cop, they were [...]
