3 days ago 2 min What is the worst that can happen? We love talking about kitchen disasters. And we worry about doing 'it wrong' when cooking. But what is the worst that can really happen?
Feb 17 2 min Greens with baked eggs Eggs cooked in a bed of veggies - a quick no-brainer kind of meal full of veggie goodness. Endlessly adaptable too.
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 6 3 min Food memories Weird, wonderful, or even unpleasant: Have you ever noticed how food has an ability to write itself deep into our memories?
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 28 3 min What's the yardstick? This week I'm reading 'Swallow This' by Joanna Blythman, the eye-opening tale of her undercover forays into the food industry's dark secrets
Jan 23 5 min How to tell without a recipe Most of us look to recipes to tell us what to do in the kitchen. How can you know intuitively, without a recipe?
Jan 22 3 min Noodle soup Noodle soup: food for the soul. Comforting, nourishing and flavourful. A zen kind of dinner.
Jan 20 1 min A chat with Anita Less recipes, more cooking: a chat about intuition in the kitchen, flavour patterns, and getting started.
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.