A charming food blog with recipes and other ramblings which may or may not be of interest to you
Minced Beef Ramen recipe Bloody hell it’s back to school time again already. The lovely quiet summer streets are filling up again and the traffic’s backing up. For many, not me as I’m ancient and my boys are grown ups, it’s time to start thinking about off/back to uni meals. And if George’s diet at…
Mango Coconut Overnight Oats recipe I’ve been a bit slow to blog recently; I’m giving myself a bit of a break over the summer months whilst we’ve been drinking too many Aperols and catching up with friends. All the ‘catching up’ has been catching up with me, so I’ve been making these Mango and Coconut…
One Pot Chicken Satay Noodles recipe I won’t lie, I very nearly didn’t create a new recipe this week. It’s bloody roasting in London, I had an exhausting weekend and I just couldn’t haul my arse away from watching tennis at the Olympics. You will be pleased to see, I did find some motivation and…
Roast Butternut and Taleggio Risotto Recipe Risotto is the ultimate comfort food. It was one of the first dishes I used to make when Clyde and I moved in together 100 years ago. His favourite variety involved the addition of quite a good deal of sausages, that least traditional of Italian ingredients. In a move…
Cod with Champagne Sauce Recipe This week I am feeling a little flat. I spent a wonderful weekend in the Isle of Wight with one of my best friends, drinking, cooking, drinking, doing yoga and talking non-stop for 48 hours. Subsequently Monday has rocked up and slapped me round the face with it’s grey tedium. Escaping…
Truffle Marmite Pasta recipe When I saw a recent tweet about Marmite’s new truffle variety, apart from thinking it was an April Fool, I literally started salivating. A beyond kind friend of mine then went to Sainsbury’s, the only supermarket selling this delicacy, and bought me a jar; and oh dear Lord, it did not…
Oven Baked Smoked Salmon Risotto recipe As a treat when I was younger we used to go to a lovely Italian restaurant in Brighton. My favourite dish, without fail, was always pasta al salmone. Faced with not enough smoked salmon to recreate this classic, I fashioned this Oven Baked Smoked Salmon Risotto, and it works…
