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Fig and Labneh Tartines with Maple and Cardamom (i.e. posh toasts!)
Don’t let the fancy name fool you, tartine is just French for ‘open-faced sandwich’. And I find it easier to say than the Danish smørrebrød, or the Finnish voileipä – the latter of which I have eaten...
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Panko-Crusted Baked Squash Blossoms with Garden Herb Ricotta
Squash blossoms are the ultimate in edible flowers. Unlike nasturtiums, borage, violets and other pretty posies consigned largely to salad and ice cube duty, squash blossoms can be stir-fried,...
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Colombian Cream of Avocado Soup – lightened up and vegan
I love being introduced to new foods and recipes. Don’t you? Pouring over others’ food blogs, visiting markets in far-flung cities and countries, ordering the wackiest (within reason) thing on the...
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Show and Tell Thursday + Instant Japanese Pickle
snapped on my phone seconds before scoffing! All I can say is, “wow!” After hovering around the front door for a couple of days – occasionally having dark thoughts of neighbours signing for my special...
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Green Passion Smoothie + Froothie Optimum 9400 Reviewed
It has taken me awhile to getting around to posting a review of my Froothie Optimum 9400 blender. Not because I haven’t been using it – far from it. I have been using it most every day for one thing...
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Velvety-Smooth Cumin and Fennel Beetroot Soup
Nearly everyone and everything says that autumn has arrived: my flame-red Virginia Creeper climbing up the garage; the carpet of crispy oak leaves on my sad excuse for a lawn; excitable foodies on...
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Cooking-For-One Week: Grilled Shiitake Kimcheese
Fact or fiction for you: munching out of a box of cereal on the sofa; curled up with the cat; the latest Netflix series glowing before you; ice cream/wine/bag of sweets on standby {delete as...
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Chocolate and Pear Quesadillas for #ChocolateWeek
If you live in the UK it will not have escaped your notice that it is #NationalChocolateWeek. Not that most of us need an excuse, especially considering that we in the UK collectively gorge on 660,900...
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Baked Chocolate Wontons
National Chocolate Week has come and gone and, despite promising another chocolate recipe for you last week, it never happened. But, it is never too late to post a healthy chocolate treat recipe, is...
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Supergreen Kale and Pistachio Pesto {vegan}
Now that the shorts and flips flops have been tucked away for another year, I feel safe to resume my kale-centric posts. Although my Instagram feed is pretty much a 365 devotional diary to this...
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Celeriac Remoulade + I Feel So Old
Gah, I am feeling my age. Not because of the ‘ooft’ noise I make when attempting to sit in a low chair – I’ve been doing that for quite a while. Not because of the way I automatically cup my left ear...
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Persimmon and Pomegranate Salad with Cinnamon Dressing
Greetings from Heathrow Airport! We are spending today {Boxing Day, the 26th} in transit: Edinburgh to London {7 hour layover!} to Washington DC, and then tomorrow on to my home state of Florida. I...
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Berry-Burst Chia Pudding
Greetings from Anna Maria Island, Florida, named by readers of Conde Nast Travel magazine as home to one of the best beaches in the world. The small evil bit in me had wished so much to be able to...
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Korean Sweet Potato Wedges with Quick Pickled Mango + Avocado-Lime Dip
I don’t know if you anthropomorphise food, but I think of sweet potatoes as humble sorts of chaps. The chaps who turn up for work and don’t raise a fuss, just quietly get the job done. An essential job...
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Burn’s Night Creamy Kale Soup with ‘Salt n Sauce’ Kale Crisps
Just a quick – for me – post for you today. A simple, but deeply nourishing and seasonal soup to warm you up on this ‘bonnie, bricht bit awfie cauld’ day. Translation: ‘beautiful, bright but awfully...
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Bee-Awesome Porridge for National Breakfast Week
I love breakfast. No, make that I LOVE BREAKFAST. It is without question my favourite meal. As you can tell from this blog I love other meals too. A lot. But breakfast is sine qua non to my daily...
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Easy Mediterranean Vegetable and Halloumi Galette
How do I love thee? Weeellll….enough to not only give you the obligatory sweet treat and some flowers for Valentine’s Day {food to glow passim}, but also this awfully easy – and possibly a bit saucy...
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Japanese Breakfast Skillet with Warm Tomato, Ginger and Miso Sauce
After days of simple breakfasts like my beloved avocado toast (how cliché am I?), interspersed once or twice by a bowl of plain yogurt topped with homemade granola and slow-cooked fruit compote...
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Homebase “How Cool Is Your Fridge” Competition + Fridge-Raid Coriander &...
What Does Your Fridge Say About You? As you can see below, my fridge is not much to boast about. It’s quite tidy inside and out, but it doesn’t really scream “food blogger” does it? It’s not heaving...
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{Double} Chocolate & Cherry Porridge – A Mother’s Day or Easter Breakfast Treat
terrible phone photo – sorry In households up and down the land, children are up to something. Hiding a spilt Ribena stain – perhaps; red pen marks on their homework – most assuredly. But no doubt they...
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