lemon zest

Pak Choi is no longer one of those ingredients which require thousands of food miles or a trip to your specialist market to get within your grasp. It is plentiful, and whilst it may be concealed in a random location at your local supermarket, is likely to be there. Depending on where you shop, it…

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,…

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…

A few weeks ago, we were sitting down to a Netflix series (either age or exhaustion has had a battering of my exact recollection as to which programme) – where one of the characters introduced Truffle oil to popcorn. It hit upon an idea as to what else we could do to make a popcorn…

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

Baked eggs with spinach, chilli, and red onion