I love middle-eastern food. The cuisine venerates the lamb and offers great vegetarian dishes. So offered Joudie Kalla’s Palestine on a Plate to review I said an enthusiastic yes! It’s a beautiful book. What I love about it is that it’s home cooking: recipes tried and tested in the every-day.
A couple of weeks ago, all I knew about Korean cooking was that it involved kimchi and pretty noodle bowls from Heathrow T5. Now, I’ve read and cooked from Korean Food Made Simple by Judy Joo and know more about Korean cooking. I’ve also got a new favourite dish.
Elly Curshen (also known as Elly Pear) runs the Pear Cafe in Bristol. Five years ago, her weight had increased. She wasn’t the sort of person that tried one diet after another. Like many of us, she had watched Michael Mosley’s Horizon documentary Eat Fast and Live Longer. Michael discovered…
Last year, I reviewed The Social Bite Cookbook. One of the recipes that caught my eye was the goat’s cheese and spinach frittata. Frittata, with its melting texture and flexibility of flavour is is a dish I occasionally crave for. (I love anything that can stand up to lashings of hot sauce and…
This year, we’ve a big focus on healthy eating on the Edinburgh Foody blog. When you’ve been diagnosed as diabetic, its not just about a desire to eat healthily it’s a necessity. Two years ago we relished Robin Ellis’ (the original Poldark) recipes in his book Healthy Eating. Now he’s…
I love Japanese food but the stuff worth paying for is usually quite pricey – so occasionally, I make it at home. My sushi has had limited success (to be fair, most sushi chefs train for decades) whilst my ramen gets better every time. I can’t get enough of the umami-rich noodles…
I love this time of year. We have had a fair few sunny days and the garden is waking up. My tomato seeds have germinated and are peering out of the window craving the light As to cooking, I want to be inspired. I want to move away from the…
Edinburgh is awash with festivals. In Inverleith Park, Foodies Festival is winding up, while across the centre of town, the International and Fringe festivals are getting into stride in their second week. Meanwhile, in Charlotte Square, the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) has just started. The book festival has a special place in…
I’m a food blogger, so I take food seriously, not just what I eat, but where I eat it and how it’s cooked. Also, I cook. Most of the food I eat is made in from scratch. Not that we don’t use shortcuts: I’m a huge fan of tinned tomatoes…
I read recently, that if you cut down the amount of salt you have in your diet, it takes 3 months before it makes any difference. So our rush each January to resolve to eat more healthily and for us to see a difference within a few weeks is probably…
