January 18, 2017
Stuffed chocolate dates
January seems like a good time to feature a recipe for one of my favourite healthy snacks. The cliche is that people start in on rigorous diet and exercise regimes…
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October 05, 2016
How to: have a prep day
I have come across the advice, in many books, to set aside a regular block of time for food preparation for the coming week. Usually referred to as a ‘Sunday…
September 08, 2016
Baked goat’s cheese sweet potato
I’m going to start this like a banal conversation. This weather we’re having is very confusing. It’s summer, but it’s overcast and drippy and the sky is like dirty dishwater….
May 14, 2016
How to: get your kitchen mojo back
“Sorry,” I say to Tom, as I send him into the kitchen for the fourth day in a row to cobble together something meal-shaped from the assorted contents of the fridge….
April 05, 2016
How to: use up a veg box
As you may have gathered, I’m crazy about vegetables. I love them and I eat rather a lot of them. As a chef, I see part of my job as…
December 01, 2015
Books of the year round-up 2015
I wrote a post around this time last year about my favourite cookbooks of 2014. Now, in the interests of those of you who may be stuck for Christmas present…
November 21, 2015
A week of winter salads: warm chicken salad with toasted seeds & tahini dressing
This week’s salad was inspired by a trip to the Forks cafe in Bradford a few weeks ago. We’d taken Frank to see Spectre at the Picturehouse, his first trip…
November 15, 2015
A week of winter salads: citrus salad with feta-stuffed dates
This week’s salad comes from the brilliant Food52 website and a column (now defunct, I think) called Cooking What I Want from Phyllis Grant of the also-brilliant blog, Dash and…
November 07, 2015
A week of winter salads: goat’s cheese, apple and cranberry
Our last holiday was nearly four years ago (unsurprisingly, owning a small business and being on holiday are not compatible activities). Luckily it was a good enough holiday for the…
October 27, 2015
A week of winter salads: warm maple-ginger squash salad with feta & pomegranate
I’m always curious about what other people eat. If I’m standing behind you in the queue at the supermarket, I’m definitely checking out what’s in your trolley. In case I’m…
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