Spring Kitchen – Fruit and Vegetables
When winter arrives, I’m usually glad that I have no outdoor space which requires tending. The thought of the dank murk, of hibernating life brings me little joy as I look out my tenement window. [...]
Spring Kitchen – Leftovers
Leftovers are not so much a genre of ingredients as a way of life. Whether it be a roast chicken carcass for stock on a Saturday night, or leftover potatoes forming the backbone of breakfast on [...]
In Cereals & Pulses, Fruit, Vegetables & Cereals, Guest articles, Havering, Ingredients, Recipes, Spring, Summer, Vegetables
Posted Stuffed peppers and tomatoes – guest post by Cristina Grohmann
One of the great things in life is sharing the joy of cooking with youngsters, I love to get into the kitchen with my girls and teach them new things. With this in mind, and to celebrate [...]
The joy of first experiences – cooking with my girls
As an adult, how often do we truly get to experience something new, for the first time? So many new experiences are simply a variation on the old. As I contemplate this fact I realise that my [...]
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Gran’s spring vegetable soup
When I was younger I spent a lot of time with my Gran, she looked after us whenever my parents were working, usually with her elder sister. One of my abiding memories of meals with this hilarious [...]
Pot roast hogget
As I sit on the plane back from Terra Madre I am feeling humbled, inspired, and reminded of the wonderful produce that Scotland has to offer and the duty to which I am bound to celebrate it. This [...]
Drawing on my passion by Anna Koska
Bringing food and ingredients to life takes on so many forms, whether through cooking, through writing or through illustration it is essential to treat the food with integrity, to give it a [...]
My Forever Autumn
‘I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers’, so wrote Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of Green Gables and whether you dream of New England in the fall or reminisce of conkers in the [...]
In Autumn, Fruit, Vegetables and Cereals, Ingredients, Recipes, Seasons, Slow Cooked, Vegetables, Winter
Posted Braised pickled red cabbage with sweet spice
Autumn is here and my thoughts immediately turn to slow cooking; both the wonderful array of vegetables that the ground gives up as well as meat from Scotland’s natural larder. One of my [...]
In Autumn, Fruit, Vegetables and Cereals, Ingredients, Meat, Poultry and Game, Pork/Ham, Recipes, Scottish Heritage, Seasons, Soups, Spring, Vegetables, Winter
Posted Autumn recipes – Lentil soup
When the cold weather bites and your heart starts to feel a little heavy at long dark nights through the interminable winter months, there’s one thing that wraps you up like a childhood [...]