May 8 2 min Many ways to stew The humble stew is the most versatile cooking pattern: no wonder that every cuisine around the world has their own iconic stews to show off.
Apr 3 2 min Simple but not boring Simple meals don't have to be boring. It's flavour and variety that makes food interesting, and you can boost both, easily!
Mar 10 2 min Tasty = Healthy We instinctively seek flavourful food, because our body intuitively knows: tasty is healthy. We are hard wired to seek flavour.
Feb 23 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 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?
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 2 2 min From chore to joy What if we looked at cooking through the curious eyes of a child? What if cooking is about the journey, not the destination?
Dec 22, 2020 3 min Spot the pattern Our brains organises information in patterns. Looking for patterns in our cooking simplifies everything!
Dec 12, 2020 4 min An intuitive Christmas feast? Christmas will be different this year. Whether we like it or not, it is an opportunity to tune into something deeper.
