When I was on my recent trip to Helsinki , my lovely hosts gave me a jar of cloudberry jam. I always really wanted to try cloudberry jam - the name sounded so beautifully romantic, and I kind of fancied it was the sort of thing…
Normally, when I go abroad, I do a lot of research beforehand on where to eat - where's the nearest vegan-friendly restaurant, where can I pick up breakfast, and whether the local beer is vegan. All important stuff - sod the …
I like lots of things about Terre a Terre. Among them is (you guessed this one, right?) the food - it's fun, it's interesting, and it's like no other veggie restaurant I can think of. Their cookbook is one of my favou…
Recently, I've become faintly obsessed with namuls. I didn't even know until recently just what a namul is, but now I know I like them a LOT. Namuls are Korean vegetable dishes - they're fairly simple to prepare, …
This is so daftly simple, I'm not even sure it could be considered a recipe - more a fortune-cookie-length instruction on how to block your arteries a bit. So what do you do when you find yourself with some leftover choc…
It's asparagus season over here! Finally, after a winter so terrible it looks like it was half-inched out of Game of Thrones, the asparagus has made it through and is now cheap as chips. Well, it's cheap as asparagus g…
You know when you're staring into the cupboard and thinking you're not sure what you want, and even if you did know then you're not sure you'd have the ingredients anyway? Well, take a deep breath and take a …
Do you have Sunday lunch in your house? As a kid, a great big meal in the middle of the last day of the week was mandatory. There'd be a big hunk of meat, some roast spuds, veggies and a slab of pudding thick enough to stop a…
A little bit back, I wrote a little bit about my experiments with flax eggs and how they worked out with cooking a coconut loaf and some simnel muffins (hint: gooooooood). The coconut loaf was from a recipe by Aussie cook Bill G…
This here Guardian article is what happens when Yottam Ottolenghi cooks something. This here photo is what happens when I attempt to do the same: The recipe is a mezze dish, so the Guardian tells me, and it involves cau…
This is not the best thing in the world I cook - it's not even the fingernail on the hand of best thing I cook. But it's the thing I can't get enough of right now - it's a guilty pleasure, like the culinary equ…
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