Regular readers of this blog would be forgiven for thinking there’s something fishy going on here… This is not the frst but the second whole fish recipe I’ve posted in about a week. Clearly, I’m on a roll. Either that or I’m: a) too stingy to buy prepared fillets; or b) too lazy to fillet […]
Click here for a full portionFor the love of pasta…
I read recently that photography is the only form of visual art where you don’t consciously add elements (“shall I give David a fig leaf? Naaah, my wrist is sore – leave him naked!”) but rather consciously have to exclude them. You point your camera at a room full of people and it’s up to […]
Click here for a full portionMushroom, Mozzarella and chive omelettes
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 […]
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