A few weeks ago I was fulminating about a spectacularly awful meal taken at The Artichoke in Croxley Green. How unfortunate for me then when I was about to go through a similar experience in the heaving seafood restaurant on … Read More
What better way to start the day then with, as my editor would say a “fat knacker breakfast”. This simple dish is a staple of Los Costeños, those Colombians lucky to live in Cartagena and along the Caribbean coast. Fortunately you … Read More
Green Conservolia olives – a wonderful nibble, made even better by the addition of a few ingredients. For the minute effort put in you get a disproportionate amount back. You can’t say that too often these days… 140gr green olives … Read More
‘Licking some chocolate from my fingers as a youngster after devouring yet another of my Mom’s famous Nanaimo Bars, little did I realise that one day they would be sitting proudly amongst the other delights on offer in the bakery … Read More
The delicious ‘weeman’ Alex who ran to the garden to pick the chives for the salad Why isn’t cooking in schools compulsory? Why do we not engage our kids at home to join in on the process of what has … Read More
Juice fasting is big. All the A listers are doing it. Muddy, gloopy and pond like, I guess they hold their nose and get on with it. Before you cover up the ears of the latest juicer in defence, I … Read More
The puri (or poori) are flat breads made from capati flour, or wholewheat flour. Some recipes use a combination of white and capati flour, and that’s perfectly acceptable. Use half and half if doing so. These take a little practice, … Read More
The French are jolly good at all sorts of stuff – they have the best National Anthem (nowhere better demonstrated than in Casablanca when Bogey gives the nod to the band to play The Marseillaise to really irritate The Hun … Read More