Brunch Ideas

Tomato Bruschetta with Chilli

Chimichurri Tuna Melt Panini

Potato Salad with Pickled Herring

Menemen – Spicy Turkish Scrambled Eggs

Guacamole Toast

Savoury Thyme, Aleppo Pepper and Cheddar Crepes

Thai Chicken and Coconut Noodle Soup

The very first time I tried Thai food was at the Chiang Mai Kitchen in Oxford, in 1994. It had opened the year before, and was somewhere I just had to try. Whilst my memory is far from photographic in terms of all the ingredients which made up the Tom Yum Poh Thek (mixed seafood…

Egg fried rice with cashew nuts, ginger and lime

The last three months have been crazy busy. Any attempt at routine has completely gone out of the window. A change of job, combined with serious family health concerns has really put Love the Kitchen on the back burner. Worse than normal bouts of chronic obstructive sleep apnoea have certainly not been stacked in my…

Stir-fried beef in oyster sauce with asparagus & edemame

My wok, which I love to bits, gets plenty of action. It gets connected to my induction hob at least twice a week, and a stir-fry of sorts is definitely on the cards. Having just returned home from a grocery shop after work, I started to unpack what I had bought and and found at…

Seafood Char Kuey Teow with Spinach

As I sit at my desk in my beloved man cave on New Year’s Eve writing my first recipe for 2018 (last twelve months were very short-changed in the output department), I look back at 2017 – a sodding awful year for so many reasons – hopeful that 2018 will compensate for the 365 days…