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Tomato Bruschetta with Chilli

Roast Clay-Pot Lemon Chicken with Garlic and Chilli

Menemen – Spicy Turkish Scrambled Eggs

Guacamole Toast

Fragrant Spinach Rice

Linguine alle vongole

Pea, mint, and Parmesan omelette

For obvious reasons, I love the weekend. Not only can I catch up on all those essential and delightful chores (cleaning, laundry and other joyous tasks) I also brunch (is that a verb?). It is the only time of the week that I can get away with only worrying about having to nourish myself twice…

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…

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…

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…