There are few greater pleasures in life than a ripe tomato bursting in your mouth. Like liquid sunshine. Deliciously sweet and ludicrously easy, this recipe is perfect for a starter or light lunch – I’ve even made mini-ones as party canapés. ***WARNING: PLEASE USE RIPE TOMATOES OTHERWISE THIS DISH WILL TASTE ANEMIC AND MAKE YOUR … Continue reading
Mussels transport me back to childhood to family camping holidays in France – an annual summer event and a lengthy affair. Our trips stretched for weeks and weeks until my brother and I could hardly remember a morning without a breakfast of still-warm baguette dunked into a delicious bowl of Banania. We would walk for … Continue reading
This recipe is pretty dirty. At the risk of stating the obvious, it has nothing to do with the low-calorie, guilt-free popcorn snacks favoured by reed-slim gym bunnies across the City. Oh no. This is about making food sufficiently sinful for those moments when you want to shut the rain out, curl up on the … Continue reading
“And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.” It’s been raining and raining and raining for days here, almost without pause, and I’ve been cowering inside like a sad damp cat for as much of it as possible. It’s the sort of weather that makes you want to curl up and eat … Continue reading
Okay, so the trip to Sardinia, coupled with the sudden drop in temperature, means that I’m having an Italian (read carb) phase. That and bikini season is over and Italian food is just so damn tastilicious. So here we are again and today’s treat is spaghetti alle vongole. It sounds fancy and yet it really … Continue reading
When it comes to salad dressings, simple is best and yet somehow I have munched through fields’ worth of salads dressed oh-so-terribly – too slimy, too sticky, too sweet, too limp, too acerbic. Too shop-bought. The trick, as with most things, is in the balance of sharp and sweet. And, as with most things, this … Continue reading
It would appear that the way to my boyfriend’s heart is through chorizo. Simple as that. So it was a stroke of luck (and crafty genius?) that the first meal I ever cooked him was a chorizo and butternut squash risotto…and proof in my book that cooking can influence the course of things! Chorizo is … Continue reading
Konnichiwa! Yesterday I was sitting on the bus on the way home craving Japanese food. So I decided to make gyoza. There is something exceedingly satisfying about eating dumplings. Chopsticks in position, chasing your slippery target around the plate, you finally get a firm grip. The tension is palpable. Quivering, you dunk it into the dipping sauce and … Continue reading
This is my go-to tomato sauce – quick and easy to make and simply delicious spread on homemade pizza bases. The flavour is surprisingly intense given the speedy cooking time so it’s perfect if you’re short on time but want to go big on flavour! Any leftover sauce screams out to be stirred into a bowl … Continue reading
This heatwave is causing me to become mildly unhinged. Heat-induced insomnia is sweeping across Britain, leaving us to limply negotiate the morning commute thirsty and grumpy, a scrum of clammy hands and moist shoes. And last night the thermostat was showing 28°C in my flat. I found myself huddled over my stove in my swimsuit, … Continue reading
pip & little blue 