Most weeks I fastidiously plan my meals and head out to the shops armed with a detailed shopping list from which I try not to deviate. It saves money and it stops me dithering over what to eat in the evenings. But lately I have found I have become a bit disorganised. I am going …
It’s been a funny old season for the vegetable patch this year. Strangely the tomatoes still have not hit their full stride and the annual courgette glut was late and is just coming to an end. It literally happened over night. One day we had no courgettes and the next, I had 12 ginormous ones …
This week I had a very special guest for lunch – Louisa from Chez Foti! Based just over an hour from one another in Gascony, South West France, we both have 2 kids of very similar ages and of course, we are both passionate food bloggers! What are the odds? Although this was not our …
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So there I was, the night before our camping holiday, ferreting around in the fridge trying to use up leftovers for our dinner. I was suddenly struck by a bolt of inspiration and I just have to share the results with you. Is there anything better than making something out of next to nothing taste …
Having recently been the happy recipient of 10 kilos of grass fed beef made up of various cuts and chunks, I have been planning and plotting how best to make use of it all. As part of my magnificent melange of meat, there were two large chunks labelled simply as ‘Pot-au-feu’. Well, we certainly don’t …
Recently something has taken hold of me, I seem powerless to fight it, I find myself preoccupied with it, I am talking to everyone about it all the time, I have even dreamed about it at night! Oh yes, I am smitten, I am…..Yotam Ottolenghi obsessed! I have not felt this way about a chef …
Have you ever cooked something you thought would be quite nice that turned out to be unimaginably, shockingly, fantastically delicious? Well this is one of those things! Not to mention that it is meat-free with the main element being Swiss Chard, a vegetable I normally think of for a side dish or bulking ingredient for …
