Much as I love ordering reasonably adventurously when I’m eating out, when it comes to cooking at home, I have to admit that I’m not one for wacky food combinations. Lamb is served with mint sauce for a good reason: the tastes really do work to complement each other. Ditto fish and lemon, chips and […]
Click here for a full portionSaturday Snapshots #14
Sunset over the Mississippi River – Galena IL, October 2008
Click here for a full portionChickpea salad with basil, olives, red onion & feta
Salads are your friend. They really are – and I’m glad I discovered this at a relatively early age. If it were up to my father, I don’t think salads would ever have graced our table. He has a long-standing and deep-rooted suspicion for all things green and crunchy and I remember my mom serving […]
Click here for a full portionBe thankful for… decadent flourless chocolate cake
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers! And a special thank you to my lovely friend Courtney who invited Mr Cooksister to share Thanksgiving dinner with her and a Certain Someone 🙂 I’ve always rather liked the concept of Thanksgiving – the secular universality of it (Christian? Jewish? Muslim? Hindu? Not a problem – […]
Click here for a full portionSavoy cabbage, courgette & runner bean stir-fry
One of the things about living alone (albeit temporarily!) is that you still go gorocery shopping as if you are buying for two. Your shopping autopilot just seems to reach automatically for so many apples, so many courgettes, so many salmon fillets… This means that, quite often, you have leftover bits and pieces. Half an […]
Click here for a full portionFeast, famine and Ferran Adria – and a challenge
Last night I (together with 900-odd other foodies) filled the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Royal Festival Hall complex to hear a talk by one of the biggest names in the foodie world today: chef Ferran Adria of El Bulli. Adria has been called the best chef in the world, and El Bulli has been named Best Restaurant in the […]
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