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Beef, ginger & butternut squash stew in the Wonderbag™ (GF, dairy-free)

by Jeanne Horak on March 16, 2025 No Comments in Gluten-free, Main course - meat, Product reviews, Recipes

Beef butternut ginger and clementine stew - Wonderbag

 

In an era where the message of “every person for themselves” seems to be the rallying cry of more and more political manifestos and empathy for those less fortunate than ourselves is on a downward spiral around the world, what are the chances of an inventor creating a product with a worldwide potential market – and then refusing to patent it so as to allow it to be reproduced as widely as possible? Seems like a fairy tale, doesn’t it? And yet that is exactly what South African Sarah Collins did when she developed the Wonderbag™, a heavily insulated cloth container that functions as a non-electric, easily portable slow cooker that is perfect for slow cooked recipes like my beef in Guinnes stew or oxtail in red wine. Click here for a full portion

Deconstructed avocado Ritz with ruby grapefruit (GF, pescatarian, dairy free)

by Jeanne Horak on April 27, 2024 2 Comments in Dairy-free, Fish, Gluten-free, Recipes, Starters & light meals

Avocado and shrimp in a pink sauce with ruby grapefruit segments

  Last  summer I visited Sicily for the first time – and what a feast for the senses that was! The markets were packed with vendors noisily calling out their wares; the freshly squeezed Sicilian lemon juice was mouth puckeringly tart; the red peppers were intensely re that they looked Photoshopped; and for the first […]

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L’Atelier Robuchon, Mayfair (2024)

by Jeanne Horak on January 20, 2024 2 Comments in London restaurants, Restaurants

Interior of L'Atelier Robuchon restaurant London

“In forming new friendships, forget not old friends.” – Roman Proverb As somebody who loves food and lives in London, it is remarkably easy to form new “friendships” with restaurants – on average, between 100 and 200 new restaurants open every year in the city! But there is always something comforting and reassuring in returning […]

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Perfect broccoli and Stilton soup (keto, low carb, GF)

by Jeanne Horak on January 14, 2023 No Comments in Leftovers, Soup

Bowls of broccoli and Stilton soup

  “The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” So wrote English writer Gilbert K Chesterton in the early 1900s. And it is true – ask a poetry fan for a poem they know about food and they can probably come up with a mention of wine or bread or plums or […]

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Masalchi by Atul Kochhar – Indian street food in Wembley

by Jeanne Horak on April 3, 2022 No Comments in London restaurants

One of the odd upsides of the Covid pandemic and London’s interminable lockdowns is that it has now been so long since I visited some parts of London that arriving there (now that things are opening up again) is almost as novel and exciting as visiting a new city. On a recent visit to Soho […]

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Barbecued salmon with blood oranges and capers

by Jeanne Horak on February 20, 2022 No Comments in Braai/Barbecue, Gluten-free, Main course - seafood, Recipes

Salmon with blood oranges dill and capers

Last weekend I had the great pleasure of seeing the stage version of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 musical Moulin Rouge – the first stage production I have seen since Message in a Bottle in Feb 2020!  It is an absolute riot of colour, inventive sets, fabulous voices and more songs than you can shake a stick […]

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Roasted Brussels sprouts with feta, pomegranate and pine nuts [GF, V]

by Jeanne Horak on February 6, 2022 1 Comment in Christmas, Gluten-free, Recipes, Vegetable side dishes, Vegetarian

Brussels sprouts with feta and pomegranate

I have a good friend who has introduced me to an excellent tradition: whenever she travels somewhere, rather than buying a T-shirt, mug, ornament or some other dust-gathering tchotchke, she tries to buy a piece of original art that will always remind her of the place and/or the trip. As a result of this tradition […]

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Jeanne Horak is a freelance food and travel writer; recipe developer and photographer. South African by birth and Londoner by choice, Jeanne has been writing about food and travel on Cooksister since 2004. She is a popular speaker on food photography and writing has also contributed articles, recipes and photos to a number of online and print publications. Jeanne has also worked with a number of destination marketers to promote their city or region. Please get in touch to work with her Read More…

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