Spring cooking: Recipe for asparagus tart

An improvised tart to celebrate spring – perfect for a Sunday lunch with friends.
The White Witch still has the East Coast in her wintry clutches, but here in Californarnia, Aslan is on the move. It’s spring! The song birds are pairing up, the squirrels are getting frisky, and the trees are in blossom. Best of [...]

Sustainable food: Local versus organic

The latest post in my series on sustainable food in partnership with Chris Perrin of Blog Well Done.
It’s time to buy groceries. You are armed with a shopping list, cloth bags and the best of intentions to buy food that is sustainable in every way. But the organic apples in Whole Foods are from New [...]

Recipe Road Test: Top Crust Peach and Cardamom Pie

The peach season was in full swing when I arrived in California and two and a half months later it is still not over. Some of the varieties have changed but peaches are still plentiful and relatively cheap. My absolute favourite kind so far are the Arctic Snow white nectarines, which are fabulously sweet and [...]

Food fashion: Is ice cream the new cup cakes?

Suddenly everyone is lining up for a scoop of the cold stuff.

Food is prone to fashion. Like the cup cake craze that we’ve had to endure ever since Sarah Jessica Parker ate one on Sex and the City once. (Long-standing readers of this blog will know that I think cup cakes are mostly over-hyped cake [...]

Recipe Road Test: Strawberry and polenta cupcakes

What I made with the bounty of my pick-your-own strawberry harvest.

The week before I left the UK I joined a group of friends on an excursion out of London to a pick-your-own strawberry farm. My friend Jessica has some pics up on her blog FushMush – that’s me in the denim skirt and turquoise top [...]

Best of the Web – The Gooseberry Fool: Foodie links for 24 August

I can’t believe August is nearly over already! Ever since I arrived in San Francisco, I’ve been devouring summer fruits, especially white nectarines and peaches. I’ll be sad when peach season is over, but I have a cunning plan to extend it a little further. I bought an entire box of organic white peaches for [...]

Best of the Web – Gooseberry Fool: Foodie links for 10 August

Food and travel
Vegetarian travel. Top 10 countries to be vegetarian in, according to Expatify.

Maltese delicacy. Nanette, the self-styled Ms Gourmet of Gourmet Worrier, writes about ġbejniet – individual cheeselettes formed in little plastic baskets made from fresh goat or sheep milk. The picture of her little girl with a bag of ġbejniet is adorable!
Spanish snouts. [...]

Top tips for visiting Borough Market in London

Borough Market is one of my all-time favourite places in London. It’s a gourmet food market right near London Bridge and South Bank and a definite must if you come to London and have even the remotest interest in cooking or eating. It’s not exactly a farmers’ market but there are plenty of farmers plying [...]

Best of the Web – Gooseberry Fool: Foodie links for 27 July

I have decided to make the ‘best of the web’ link collections a weekly event, alternating each week between the Gooseberry Fool (foodie links) and Roaming Tales (travel). I hope you enjoy it!
Recipes
An intriguing idea for salsa – a blueberry salsa! The recipe, tested by Alanna from Kitchen Parade, also includes serrano chilli peppers, jalapenos, [...]

Best of the Web: Seasonal eating for July

After months of dealing with immigration paperwork and organising packing and shipping, I have finally made it to California. I’ve been living in San Francisco for a week and I’m loving it so far.
We have a great green grocer right around the corner from our house and I’ve also been to the farmers’ market at [...]

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