Feb 10 4 min Cooking with fresh herbs Do you love using fresh herbs, but find them hard to get and hard to keep fresh? This is what I do: I freeze my herbs!
Feb 2 2 min Fish stew many ways Stews are a great 'trick' up the kitchen sleeve - endlessly adaptable and dead easy. Fish stews have the advantage of cooking quickly too.
Jan 22 3 min Noodle soup Noodle soup: food for the soul. Comforting, nourishing and flavourful. A zen kind of dinner.
Jan 16 2 min Flavour basics What are the basic elements of flavour? The most essential principles beyond ingredients and spices? Here is what I learned.
Jan 12 3 min The thing about garlic Garlic is something I use all the time in my kitchen. It adds depth and savouriness to anything I cook so it's hardly ever a bad choice.
Dec 26, 2020 3 min Cabbage carbonara! Cabbage carbonara with a twist! Who would have thought: sautéd cabbage works surprisingly well as a base for pasta sauces of all kinds.
Dec 22, 2020 3 min Spot the pattern Our brains organises information in patterns. Looking for patterns in our cooking simplifies everything!
Dec 16, 2020 5 min Deconstructing a recipe Step by step example: How I deconstruct a recipe to end up with simplified version, even if it's something I never cooked before.
Dec 12, 2020 3 min The Book List December is a time for 'best of' lists. So here is a list of my absolute favourite books on food and cooking.
Dec 2, 2020 3 min Lentils to the rescue! Both deeply comforting and really simple, a pot of lentils hits the spot on a chilly, busy evening.