Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
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 vegetarian dish adapted from a Nigella Lawson recipe. The problem with food blogging is that a lot of the most delicious food is not particularly photogenic. If I were a truly dedicated food blogger, I would cook up beautiful cakes just for the joy of photographing them, and I would do most of my [...]
The top 10 most popular posts at the end of 2008. 10. Recipe Road Test: Nigella’s rhubarb tart Guest blogger Pixie tests out Nigella Lawson’s rhubarb tart recipe from How to be a Domestic Goddess. 9. Recipe Road Test: Fried aubergines with chilli and salad onions I test out Simon Hopkinson’s aubergine recipe from Waitrose [...]
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 [...]
A Christmas Day discovery leads me to invent a tart in honour of the Oranges and Lemons nursery rhyme. On Christmas morning after a delicious brunch of Scandinavian pancake and opening the presents under the tree, we went for a walk. In serendipitous fashion, we discovered the Bells of Stepney from the children’s nursery rhyme [...]
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 [...]
Pumpkins are one of my favourite foods but they’re not just for eating! It’s autumn in the northern hemisphere and the abundance of pumpkins and squashes in the shops and markets is lending the season an old-time harvest feel. Decorative gourds can help recreate that feeling of warmth and plenty at home. I fell in [...]
In the final week of the Leiths Confident Cooking Course, we tackled homemade pasta and amaretti chocolate truffles Tortellini of ricotta, lemon, parmesan and sage butter I’ve wanted to make homemade pasta for years, but I don’t have a pasta maker and I’ve not felt confident I could roll out the pasta by hand. Or [...]
The menu for the penultimate week of my Leiths course was lamb with pan-fried new potatoes, beans and parma ham, onion and chili chutney for main course, followed by a passionfruit and Muscat syllabub Lamb fillet with pan-fried new potatoes, beans and parma ham, onion and chili chutney This recipe was adapted from New Zealand [...]
In week 8 of the Leiths Confident Cooking course we deboned wood pigeon and made strudel from scratch. Apple strudel I really enjoyed this class. It never occurred to me that we would be making the filo pastry for the apple strudel from scratch. Nor that making filo would be so much fun. Who knew? [...]
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