I’ve been making bread since my early twenties. Just recently though, I’ve become obsessed. Why do I make bread? The taste is just amazing and it’s so good for you. It’s also great to share with friends and colleagues although there I nearly caused an upset recently when Mr EF…
Yes. I live with a vegetarian. And yes, I like haggis. I like the meaty, sheep’s stomach, bits of blood and guts version. I also really like the veggie version. Particularly MacSween’s veggie haggis. A good few years ago, you could buy wonderful Indian patties filled with vegetarian haggis from…
Why do I write a food blog? Wherever I go, food is a great starting point for a conversation. Those passionate about food are some of the loveliest people you could hope to meet, whether they are growing the product, cooking it, writing about it or indeed promoting it, and…
“The essential guide to edible species with recipes and plants for natural remedies and materials to gather for fuel gardening and craft” Foraging seems to have had a renaissance over the last few years. I took part in a very enjoyable event at the Royal Botanic Gardens earlier in the…
If you love cooking, have you ever tried to find a cookbook that will instil even just a little bit of your passion in someone else? Not an easy task. I’ve tried and have had limited success, but now I’ve found one Virgin to Veteran: How to Get Cooking with…
Just recently, I helped gather some recipes for a diary project. It was only when I tried to convert some american measurements into metric that I discovered how challenging it was work out all the equivalents. There are so many times you get stumped in the kitchen. At Christmas time,…
When the weather’s too depressing to go out and forage or search for good eating places, I stay in to cook and read. Recently, I’ve been revisiting some of my favourite books about food.
I’ve become rather obsessed with India over the last few years, not least when I discovered Atul Kochhar on the Great British Menu and started cooking dishes from his two great cookery books. He gave me an insight to a subtle balance of spices and flavours with very easy to…
It’s great to get a parcel through the post. The team at Octopus Publishing must have thought I needed something to make me smile. Opening the package and finding inside “Dress your Cookie” certainly did. Decorating cookies could very well become the next craze after cupcakes. The book by Joanna…
Amazon wish-lists are great. They make sure you get what you want. In our household, this Christmas saw no less than four cookery books under the tree: Darina Allen: Forgotten Skills of Cooking Nicola Graimes: New Vegetarian Kitchen Pushpeesh Pant: India: the Cookbook The Silver Spoon
