lemon zest

Chilli Tomato and Prawn Cuttlefish Ink Fettuccine

Roast Clay-Pot Lemon Chicken with Garlic and Chilli

Potato Salad with Pickled Herring

Smoked Mackerel Rillettes with Aleppo Pepper

Fragrant Spinach Rice

Linguine alle vongole

Fennel, orange and anchovy salad

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…

Halal Beef Goulash

Only last week, I was discussing with Pavol ( a super talented Slovakian database guy I work with) my weekend plans to make a Beef Goulash. We shared stories of the Goulash parties we had been to (I lived in Slovakia over 20 years ago and have been to quite a few), compared recipes, and…

Roasted root vegetable skewers

This is it. A milestone. The big fifty (recipes posted to date on Love the kitchen). And what did I choose to do to commemorate – something so extraordinary simple…but, at the same time, something I have neither seen nor tried before. I now rate it highly ;o) I really am a big fan of…

Blueberry Pancakes

Ever since watching Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Classic Pulp Fiction, I was made aware of the culinary delight that is the ‘blueberry pancake’. If memory serves, Butch has to return to his apartment to retrieve his father’s watch, leaving his girlfriend Fabienne to mull over the breakfast options in the far from glamorous motel. However, it…