Bread

Sourdough Bread Part 2: The Sourdough Loaf

Sourdough Bread part 1: The Starter

Italian Oregano Flatbread with Goats Cheese and Pear

multi seed bagels

Black Olive and Herb Bread

Onion, Red Chilli, and Black Olive Bread

Thai Red Curry with Chicken and Pineapple

Reflecting on 2024, I thought it was one of the toughest years I could remember. However, 2025 has already proven to be even more challenging, with events that have pushed me to my limits and affected both me and my loved ones deeply. Life can be cruel, and deeply unfair. To my dear folks –…

Smoked Mackerel Rillettes with Aleppo Pepper

What the F##k happened in 2020? We have not even reached the end of March and Brexit happened. Marlini was made redundant. Bathroom had to be largely rebuilt due to a leaking gasket. I broke a bone. Am three weeks into Laryngitis with every cure thrown at it proving largely futile (though the odd spoonful…

Salade Niçoise with warm potatoes

Well, this is a first. Creating a recipe, photographing it, eating it then, four weeks later, sitting in a hotel room in Monterey, California – suffering with my worst jet lag to date thinking that, however brainless I feel, why not use this opportunity to dedicate some constructive time to Love the kitchen?. I have…

Baked Whole Sea Bass with Mediterranean Vegetables

Both Marlini and I love Fish and Seafood and will do our utmost to incorporate it into our diet at any given opportunity. Whilst I would love to purchase our fish stock locally – and keep us budding pescatarians happy in the process – fresh seafood has been disappointingly out of reach for the last…