Spring rolls are famous all across India and South East Asia. In Chinese culture, these cylindrical nuggets symbolise wealth and are eaten in Spring to welcome the new season. A dipping sauce isn’t essential but does offer a lively contrast to the crispy fried pastry. There are certain pastries that should always be homemade, like a proper shortcrust or pâte…
Spring rolls are famous all across India and South East Asia. In Chinese culture, these cylindrical nuggets symbolise wealth and are eaten in Spring to welcome the new season. A dipping sauce isn’t essential but does offer a lively contrast to the crispy fried pastry. There are certain pastries that should always be homemade, like a proper shortcrust or pâte…
For everyone who’s sweet tooth needs regular appeasing, I’ve hand-picked a few of the most popular Healthy Sweet Treat Recipes on the blog into one post. The recipes are mostly refined-sugar free, relying on dates and other wholesome bits and bobs to deliver on blissful expectation. This Mandarin Vegan Fudge with toasted almond nibs is from my Cookbook. It’s corruptively…
I probably shouldn’t admit to this, but when I left home, I could only make two things well. One was condensed milk cookies and the other, lasagna. I practised them often, the first to appease my sweet tooth and see me through exam stresses, the latter, because who doesn’t love a good lasagna? Thirty years on, my mother’s recipe has…
This year, Mother’s Day will look different to any other. Distance is the unwelcome guest at the table. Although we’ve become accustomed to restrictive affections and words a diluted substitute for human touch. If the world were normal, we’d all be gathered together to celebrate our mothers, the nurturers and peacemakers, the glue that bonds singular into unity. To help…
As lockdown becomes increasingly challenging and the stack of dishes the best exhibit of organic growth, easy food becomes more and more attractive. I made this Simple roast Napoletana Pasta a couple of weeks ago, near the beginning of our stay at home season. I think it might be in the top three best isolation meals. It’s pasta, after…
The recipe for this Classic carrot cake is from Astrid Field’s debut cookbook, High Tea at Home. It’s a sprawlingly pretty baking book filled with sweet indulgences for every occasion, each recipe reflective of Astrid’s impeccable skill and artistry as a baker extraordinaire. I wrestled with which recipe to bake first. I’m naturally biased toward fruit and vegetable cakes, almost as…
Comfort food reminds us of home, the food our mothers cooked on the fly, without recipe cards and formal instructions. Mostly, these recipes were unfussy and simple, the kind of food eaten around the kitchen table, served up with lively banter and emotional unpacking of everyday life. Comfort food falls into one of two categories. Savoury or sweet. If severely gripped…
Here is how this Quick Lemon and Herb chicken came to be. Last week I posted a Q&A on my Instagram stories along with a box of Lemongold seedless lemons. Given the choice, I asked which you’d prefer – a savoury or sweet recipe with lemons being the heroes. Savoury won. Personally, I thought it would be sweet, like lemon…
If you’re suffering from sourdough bread envy, as most first time sourdough bakers are, this post is for you. Baking a boss sourdough requires skill, intuitive judgement and time. Plenty time. Not a casual four week on then off-again fling. While we’re nurturing our starter children who are either ravenously hungry, overfed, too hot, hyperactive or lacking in character, I…
Here are Twenty Easter Recipes to make this year’s Easter celebration memorably delicious and uncomplicated. From pillowy soft hot cross buns, to lamb roasts, hot pots and swoon-able chocolate desserts. I’ve also included a spicy hot cross bun soda bread that sidelines the need for yeast. Although a Lockdown Easter looks decidedly different, there is hopefulness within the darkness. Each…
