Sausage rolls are right up there with Scotch eggs on the comfort food / general amazingness scale of British snacks; there is no time when they aren’t appropriate. It’s February now, so you can stop pretending you’re still following your […]
I could go on about New Year, New You, healthy eating, lose weight January etc etc but at the end of the day, this dish is too delicious, and too versatile to just be categorised into one little part of […]
Sometimes you just need a Tuna Melt. You’ve had a big night, you’re feeling a little hungover, you’ve spent all your money on gin and tonics and you can’t be bothered to do any washing up…. Tuna melt. Alternatively – […]
Kalamata olive, I have been told, is the best olive. This is from a guy who knows his food, the head baker at the bakery I work for. I specify the olive type here (because ‘best olive’, of course) but […]
When I was travelling through Thailand a couple of years ago, I took part in a wonderful cooking course in Chiang Mai. At the very start, we went round a huge local market, oogling at all the exotic fruits and […]
You may or may not know but I am partial to a crunchy texture, and I do not handle flaccid crumble topping well. Having not such a specific idea of what I wanted to make for my crumble (other than […]
Surprisingly healthy, inCREDIBLY delicious and a bit different to your average weekday night supper, this Thai chicken satay rice bowl has become a home staple for me (I’ve even bought bowls especially for it). The first I knew of Gizzi […]
The other day I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about the recipes on the blog and I received a request, in no uncertain terms, for a hangover recipe. A hangover recipe is, to me, comforting, oozing […]
I understand that you can buy a slightly translucent, white and artificial Caesar salad dressing in most supermarkets, but please make NO comparison with that nonsense to what I’m writing about below. You may be weird about anchovies, you may […]
We have a house rule – we must always have the ingredients for spaghetti alla puttanesca in the flat, at all times. Due to the fact that the only fresh ingredients you really need for this recipe are cherry tomatoes […]