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Guacamole Toast

28/02/2019 By Richard Bewley 1 Comment

As this blog is supposed to be about cooking, I ...

Fusilli pasta with pesto and griddled Mediterranean vegetables

10/10/2018 By Richard Bewley 2 Comments

I would be first to admit that whipping up a ...

Fragrant Spinach Rice

01/04/2018 By Richard Bewley 1 Comment

"I love rice!" - is something I hear on a very ...

Halal Beef Goulash

16/01/2018 By Richard Bewley 5 Comments

Only last week, I was discussing with Pavol ( a ...

Seafood Char Kuey Teow with Spinach

01/01/2018 By Richard Bewley 1 Comment

As I sit at my desk in my beloved man cave on New ...

Nearly five weeks to the day, I did what I try and do every time a birthday comes around – (OK, this year I admit, as a leap year, it wasn’t a real one) – escape the cold, wet and bleak February weather and exchange it for winter sun. One destination neither my far…

A little while ago – almost four weeks to the day – two things happened – I had my work Christmas party, which also coincided with my last day of my job in Yorkshire. Leaving party + a festive shindig did certainly render me, the next morning, into a certain feeling of disrepair. It is,…

Some time ago, I regularly used to buy ready prepared spatchcock Poussin from Gressingham, the remarkable duck people (in their own words). Well, what is remarkable about poussin is that they are, em, not a duck – but a butcher’s term for young chicken. Poussin are typically a breed that is naturally slow-growing, meaning that…

Last week I returned from a fantastic reunion in Slovakia – a place I really see as my second home. I taught English to adults in a town called Roznava 18 years ago (I was one of the youngest in the class at the time), and was exposed to many great traditions – my favourite…