Celery Soup

The weather is in that uncertain stage when it’s not quite sure if it wants to take a leap into spring or bid a hasty retreat back into cold winter days. Here in London we’re used to changeable weather throughout the year where you can see huge 10C drops or jumps from one day to […]

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Roast Tomato & Thyme Soup

Foodwise, I’ve had a lifelong love affair with tomatoes. Tomatoes all ways: raw sprinkled with sea salt; tomato sauce for pasta or to tuck little meatballs into; slow roasted for antipasti; stuffed Greek style. Is there no end to the wonders of tomatoes. Perhaps my least favourite is tomato juice, even with the addition of […]

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Roasted Cauliflower Soup with Spices

Sometimes I get a bit carried away when I’m food shopping and forget there’s generally just me to cook for or that I might be going out a few times in the week ahead. So there I was with a beautiful organic cauliflower I bought a few days ago sitting in my fridge and I thought […]

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Cavolo Nero Soup with Tomato, Beans & Bread

Every 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 […]

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