Another lazy weekend, another lazy lunch. My mom never insisted that my brother and I help her cook. Of course, we always had to help with laying the table and doing the dishes, but she was happy to do the actual cooking herself. (I used to think she was just spoiling us, but the older […]
Click here for a full portionChocolate, prune and armagnac cake (gluten-free)
Being a food blogger affects your life in a number of ways. One day you wake up and find that: * you haven’t used your telephoto lens in six months because you are always taking photos of food with your macro; * you realise that all your holidays for the past year have been planned […]
Click here for a full portionCranberry apple bran muffins – virtue never tasted so good
Bran muffins have a serious PR problem. Just like prunes that have become the butt-end (pardon the pun) of many a joke because of their laxative properties, bran muffins are somehow destined to be associated forever with the sandal-wearing, lentil-eating, tree-hugging hippy image of people trying to live a slightly left-of-centre lifestyle. You’d imagine that […]
Click here for a full portionMoira’s New England clam chowder
Seeing as we’re in a Boston frame of mind at the moment, after I FINALLY got round to posting about my visit, it would be probably be a good idea to strike while the iron is hot and to post this dish which is closely related to Boston and which I made about a year […]
Click here for a full portionWild Honey [now Wild Honey St James]
I’ve been eating out a lot lately. The waistband of my trousers tells me so. We seem to have had an endless parade of visiting friends and old acquaintances to catch up with, and London being London it is almost always easier to meet at a restaurant somewhere halfway between our respective houses. So the […]
Click here for a full portionWhole mackerel with orange butter
When I was a little girl, one of my favourite movies was The Rescuers. I loved Evinrude the dragonfly, I loved Orville the albatross, I adored stylish Miss Bianca and good-hearted Bernard. One of the lines I remember best from the movie was the fact that Bernard always greeted every unexpected event with “holy mackerel!”. […]
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