If you’re planning your next foodie city break, why not head to picture-perfect Bruges in the Flanders region of Belgium? We spent a gluttonous few days there at Easter and were seduced by food and architecture alike. A stone’s throw from Brussels, it’s a fittingly sumptuous medieval backdrop to eat and drink yourself into a …
So everyone’s going crazy for the mythical-sounding “golden milk” at the moment and I want in on the action! Golden milk aka turmeric milk is by no means a new invention – it’s been doing the rounds in Indian Ayurvedic medicine for centuries as the hot milk drink haldi doodh – and it’s health properties are renowned. …
It’s dark, foggy and very damp in London at the moment, and I am officially in full-blown, hood-up, tights-on, Autumn mode. And to harness all the beautiful produce knocking about at this time of year, I’ve been making industrial quantities of pumpkin and squash purée and applesauce, and stashing them in the depths of my …
Sheesh, it’s been a long time since I last posted – I’ve had so much going on in my ‘real’ life that I’m ashamed to say that poor old pip & little blue has suffered a bit. Alas, these things happen, so I am intent on not feeling too guilty about it. It’s the intention …
Venison tartare, blue cheese, smoked egg yolk purée Tucked away in the Lyth Valley at Crosthwaite in the Lake District, The Punch Bowl Inn & Restaurant is a restaurant worth writing home about. We spent the end of May bank holiday weekend in the area and the restaurant had been recommended to us – we … Continue reading
Living in central London without a garden to call my own, I’ve gone a bit miniature-herb-garden-crazy of late and have started cultivating bits and bobs on my windowsills. Some may even see this as preferable to a garden – a friend recently lamented that the resident fox in her area keeps digging up the tarragon…#firstworldproblems … Continue reading
About a year ago, a start-up US magazine called Nanny Magazine approached me and asked if I would like to contribute some recipes to their maiden print issue. They were looking for recipes that were both heart-healthy, child-friendly and simple to create. It still astonishes me how blogs can connect people from across the globe … Continue reading
Q: What’s better than cauliflower cheese, mac’n’cheese and pretty much most other things? A: Cauliflower mac and cheese rolled into one, topped with crunchy breadcrumbs and drizzled with truffle oil. IT’S MAC’N’CHEESE ON STEROIDS. Yes, there is one of your 5-a-day snuck in here but I’m not going to lie to you lovely people – … Continue reading
This is the sort of dish that is at once exotic and comforting. The warm spices and sweet apricots taste of Morocco, with its mountains of spices and sticky almond croissants and endless thimbles of syrupy mint tea. And yet a bowl of this is also exactly the kind of thing that should be eaten with … Continue reading
Monkfish is a beautifully textured fish and so meaty that it can stand up to proper flavours – move over white wine and parsley, I’m talking chorizo and garlic and smoked paprika (okay, and a teensy bit of parsley). At once easy to make and completely dinner party-proof, this is a dish of two halves … Continue reading
Street art, Athens. Skillful street art makes the urban landscape a better and more colourful place. For some of the best, take a trip to Bristol or Buenos Aires. Source: Photo by pip & little blue. Continue reading
Last Sunday I was having one of those days when leaving the house simply wasn’t an option. All I wanted was a long soak in the bath, a quiet read snuggled up on the sofa with endless cups of tea and some Netflix one-on-one quality time. My boyfriend didn’t want to go out either so … Continue reading
Roses in my living room. These stunning roses were given to me by a couple of friends at the weekend as a house-warming gift. I am a sucker for roses and will definitely be drying these beauties! Source: Photo by pip & little blue. Continue reading
So I went to Argentina, turned 30 and then came back again. Most days went something like this: steak, malbec, some more steak, a bit more malbec followed by a generous dollop of dulce de leche and washed down by some more malbec. Times were good. So we brought back a large cowhide, a lot of … Continue reading
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