Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
It’s a rare thing – it may even be a first – for the Single Gourmet Traveller to do a culinary Atlantic crossing and cook ‘American’. I put this in quote marks as I certainly don’t wish to offend my American followers and readers and claim any authenticity as I have little experience when it […]
Read MoreThere was some wonderful produce in the local farmers’ market in Twickenham yesterday. I often go with the intention of buying some particular things – yesterday I wanted to buy a couple of chickens – but it’s also great to just look around and see what’s on offer and in season. I wanted to make […]
Read MoreYes, it’s soup time. It may be unseasonably warm for this time of year but as far as I’m concerned – being a summer loving person – we’ve reached winter. Working from home, I like to have easy – but healthy – quick lunches on hand. During the summer it’s usually some kind of salad, […]
Read MoreWhat do you do with three-quarters of a cauliflower? That’s what I had left over from the Winter Tabbouleh I made on Friday evening. It’s actually quite a lot of cauliflower for a girl to use up on her own. I considered making the wonderful Cavolfiore Affogato – Drowned Cauliflower – again, as the addition […]
Read MoreIt’s so nice when you find out that things you love to eat are also good for you. I love broccoli and eat it a lot. So full of excellent nourishing things is it that Ian Marber describes it in his book, The Food Doctor: Healing Foods for Mind and Body, as a ‘perfect food’. I’d […]
Read MoreIt was a busy morning and the house was still cold waiting for a new boiler to arrive and be fixed, so soup seemed an absolute must to warm two cold girls (my daughter was still here). I didn’t have time to shop but remembered driving back from an appointment in Chiswick that there was […]
Read MoreEvery Saturday morning there’s a very good farmers’ market in Twickenham (in fact, I keep meaning to write a post about it, but it was raining heavily this morning so I wasn’t going to hang around and the post will have to wait for a sunnier or at least drier Saturday). There were gorgeous big […]
Read MoreParsnips are so evocative of the autumn and winter seasons: that fragrant, slightly woody aroma that simply bursts at you even as you begin to peel them. My late dad loved roasted parsnips and they were always on the menu for Christmas dinner, soft in the middle with slightly caramelised edges that heightened the natural […]
Read MoreLike a lot of people in UK at the moment with the cold weather storming in in a flurry of sharp winds and lots of rain, I have a cold. Now I’m not expecting sympathy – it’s really not that bad – but the point is that ‘nursing’ my cold is what led to me […]
Read MoreIt felt like the last day of summer in my garden this morning with the sun shining brightly through the chilly air and the title of that iconic TV series, The Last of the Summer Wine, came to mind as I surveyed the last of my summer mint and wondered what to do with it. It’s […]
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