Full of notions

Pumpkin and thyme tart

5th December 2023

This tart is a riff of a basic I have been cooking since I started catering; a shamelessly shop-bought pastry case full of vegetables and a quiche like filling. Sometimes there is cheese, sometimes there is spice, there is always delicious. They seem to be popular with the resident toddler, but most importantly of all, […]

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Caramalised onion frittata

16th January 2023

Once upon a very long time ago, I took a solo trip to London and ended up having the most fabulous lunch at the bar of Barrafina where I was introduced to sherry for the first time and my wide eyed enthusiasm for it all was rewarded by them simply asking my budget (not all […]

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Little Pink Kitchen Brownies

Little Pink Kitchen brownies

16th January 2023

Oh, these brownies. I have made so many of them, over the years. The invention of these brownies would actually be the easiest thing in the WORLD to romanticise but basically 9 odd years ago I was talking to new friends I wanted to impress about Indian breakfast food and how fabulous it was and […]

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Spicy cucumber salad

14th January 2023

I feel like a bit of a sham of a food writer, with this one, I’m not going to lie. You see, I lived in that there China, a long, long time ago, when I was eighteen years old. I taught English as a foreign language (I mean that sentence alone shows you it was […]

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