A recipe for Morwenna’s cupboard. Ingredients butter or vegetable oil rice (c. 90g-100g per person, rinsed) 2 smoked mackerel fillets…
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…
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…
A partial list of Rome
We travel to Rome in the dead days of the new year to see friends and to rinse our mouths…
Pears Caramel with Bay Leaf Custard
I like to have this with chilled custard and warm pears. It’s both deeply comforting and very elegant. You could…
Charred Onion Salad
We ate this Turkish-style onion salad with Claudia Roden’s excellent and very simple recipe for rice with red lentils from…
Leftover Rice Method
Warm through a layer of leftover rice (it could be plain boiled rice – I had rice with butter, onion,…
Smoky Potato Soup with Poached Egg, Rouille, Cheese
I didn’t have much to go in this soup apart from potatoes (no other vegetables or bacon) and it was…
Celeriac Gratin
A recipe made using what I anticipated wouldn’t be quite ideal ingredients, but which were in fact, very ideal. We…
Upside Down Dark Chocolate Cake
This is a very good, dessert-like chocolate cake. It is very easy to make and doesn’t involve any creaming of…
