I really want to write about – and cook – asparagus, because it’s Spring now, and I’m absolutely itching to get to the market on Sunday and see if they have asparagus yet. I won’t buy asparagus until I find…
Recipe: Not Really Moussaka
So I had this idea about making vegetarian moussaka with some of the leftovers and veggies I had in the house. And I looked at the Delia vegetarian moussaka, and liked the look of it, so I thought I’d give…
Just some domestic cooking…
I’m feeling very virtuous today, cooking-wise. I have a big pot of vegetarian chilli simmering, which will be tonight’s dinner as well as being numerous dinners to come. My freezer has been getting a bit depleted of late, but this…
Recipe: Steph’s Sticky Date Pudding Cupcakes with Caramel Sauce
This is a guest post from Steph, a friend of mine from work. She brought a huge batch of these cupcakes (and more importantly, their sauce) in for her birthday a few weeks ago, and we devoured them in record…
Recipe: Smoked trout, sun-dried tomato and leek pasta bake
This is probably not the kindest thing to do to smoked trout, but Andrew is very anti-fish, so if I want to cook fishy things, I have to disguise them a bit. And it was lovely – the smokey trout…
Recipe: Primary Colour Marble Cake
The local garden shop has mutated into a local garden shop that also sells really interesting obscure organic ingredients. Excellent. One of their interesting obscure ingredients was strawberry powder, which is freeze-dried strawberries ground into a powder. It’s lovely –…