carrots, chickpeas, rice

A recipe for Zoe’s cupboard Ingredients 3-4 garlic cloves, crushed 2 teaspoons cumin 2 teaspoons of turmeric 1 teaspoon of … More

Menu for Ayça and Zoe

We prepared and cooked this meal as we went in a very leisurely way while we sitting around drinking and … More

We travel to Rome in the dead days of the new year to see friends and to rinse our mouths … More

I like to have this with chilled custard and warm pears. It’s both deeply comforting and very elegant. You could … More

We ate this Turkish-style onion salad with Claudia Roden’s excellent and very simple recipe for rice with red lentils from … More

Warm through a layer of leftover rice (it could be plain boiled rice – I had rice with butter, onion, … More

I didn’t have much to go in this soup apart from potatoes (no other vegetables or bacon) and it was … More

A recipe made using what I anticipated wouldn’t be quite ideal ingredients, but which were in fact, very ideal. We … More

This is a very good, dessert-like chocolate cake. It is very easy to make and doesn’t involve any creaming of … More

This was a very last-minute concoction to accompany pork chops, and it was delicious. You could have it with many other … More