Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
I love fishcakes and often choose them from a menu when I’m out, but I rarely make them. I’m not sure why but I’ve been thinking about making some again for a while and today I got round to it at last! My first stop was to the local fishmongers this morning. Sandys is a family-run business […]
Read MoreI’m getting excited about my holiday in France in a couple of weeks. I haven’t had a holiday in France for ages and how could anyone who loves food and wine not be excited by the thought of a week spent in the middle of Calvados country and wonderful Normandy cheeses like Pont L’Eveque and […]
Read MoreI first went to Rome in 2001. I’d booked myself into a language school for 4 weeks and was lucky enough to be able to stay in my friends Robert and Jenny’s flat; their first flat but close to the one I visited in March. Just a short distance past the old city walls – […]
Read MoreI’m discovering that when I think I’ll do a classic dish for the blog, something I’ve cooked many times over many years, it’s never as easy as it should be. It’s like stepping into a sea – in this case the lovely Mediterranean variety – of controversy. There you are thinking you know without question […]
Read MoreI went both healthy and summery tonight with supper. Healthy from a desire for something lighter on the stomach after an Easter weekend full of more desserts and – of course! – chocolate than usual. Summery, because the sun was shining today but without that lovely warmth of a couple of weeks ago, so I […]
Read MoreUnusually there wasn’t much in the fridge but the freezer harboured a portion of salmon and a packet of peas; there was a collection of different pastas in the cupboard and some fresh herbs were brightly singing their fragrancy on the kitchen windowsill. Once an idea had formed in my head, I had to nip […]
Read MoreThis dish became a family favourite as it was the only fish dish my son would eat for years. Despite an affection for fish fingers and fish pie as a toddler, he suddenly went right off fish aged about six but late in his teens could be enticed to eat this spicy tuna dish after […]
Read MoreThis is one of my favourite supper dishes – easy and quick to make for one; easy to make for two, or three or more … I always have tomatoes on hand (see my Top Ten Ingredients), keep raw prawns in the freezer and am never without pasta – though linguine is best for this […]
Read MoreWarm summer evenings – even if it is officially autumn now – call for summery flavours and what better than a gorgeous home-made pesto from garden herbs with a little taste of the sea. I’m lucky to have a very good fishmonger just down the road in Twickenham’s high street – Sandys. I was walking […]
Read MoreI’d popped into Waitrose for some Earl Grey tea … but that’s what supermarkets are like, even when you go in for one thing and grab just a basket rather than a trolley … you end up apologising at the six-items-only checkout and hope they don’t send you back to Go. I’d had in mind […]
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