Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
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 [...]
I’ve just finished a special meal for one. I went to Borough Market today and stocked up on goodies to help keep myself cheerful during the separation. My husband is vegetarian, so it’s also a chance to indulge my inner omnivore (though admittedly I do eat meat and fish when he’s here as well). I [...]
We have returned to London in the glorious throes of spring, with blue skies and brilliant sunshine and the signs of new life throbbing all around us. As we walk through the parks, the lawns and canopy of new leaves in the tree tops seem unnaturally green in their jewel-like hues. The meadows are alive [...]
Hearty and healthy winter soup. I’ve been asked for my potato and leek soup recipe so I thought I’d share it here. It’s from Mollie Katzen’s wonderful vegetarian cookbook The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. After the excess of Christmas and with just over three months to go before my wedding, I’m on a bit of a [...]
Look at this gorgeous Romanesco cauliflower that came in my vegetable box the other week. Half of it made a delicious Sophie Grigson curry recipe and the other half went in my own improvised vegetable risotto. It tastes almost exactly like white cauliflower but slightly more piquant because of the greenish tinge. I particularly like [...]
Reinventing pavlova for the English summer Pavlova is an antipodean invention, generally served with fruit and whipped cream. Berries are popular toppings, as are bananas, kiwi, mango and passion fruit. This is a very English take on pavlova. I used clotted cream, that lovely crusty yellow, solid cream from Cornish and Devonshire cream teas. And [...]
My recipe for ‘caponata’ – the classic Sicilian vegetable dish starring aubergine and tomato and flavoured with olives and capers Here in London, summer has arrived with a sudden burst. The days are long and sunshiney, the lawns and trees dazzle with emerald green, and there are roses blooming everywhere. As I sit here at [...]
Make the most of the all-too-brief English asparagus season by devouring the succulent green stems by the plateful – plus some cool trivia about ‘sparrow grass’ It’s a foodie cliché to declare your love for asparagus, particularly here in Britain where asparagus lovers are so passionate they even have a two-month festival devoted to it. [...]
This is my version of pasta primavera – food to celebrate spring. You could make this at another time of year using good quality frozen peas and broad beans, or you could vary the recipe by using other spring vegetables such as leeks, spring onions, asparagus, snap peas. This is vegetarian but if you prefer, [...]
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