Baked Cassava Root Fries with Smokey Tomato Dip
Step aside white potato. Never heard of cassava before? If you live in one of London’s multicultural neighbour hoods I am sure that you have seen this brown vegetable and wondered what on earth it was. Is it even a vegetable? It looks much like a log, or an...
Slow Cooker Spiced Apple Chutney
Making cheese more interesting. A festive cheeseboard isn’t a cheese board without its accompaniments. Handful of grapes, a selection of hard, soft & blue cheeses, rustic oat cakes or crackers, and then that something extra; chutney. I’ve friends that...
Pan-fried Chicory (Belgian Endive) with Crumbled Feta and Hazelnuts
A simple healthy side dish for pan-fried chicory. Pan-frying transforms chicory from a bitter leaf to a sweet delicious vegetable. I don’t believe that chicory gets enough love aside from its genius usefulness as a healthy canapé scoop. Perfect with crushed peas...
Purple Sprouting Broccoli & Sprout Gratin
Purple sprouting broccoli is in season now, so do buy it quickly – it tends to go out of season around the end of April. My pledge to cook seasonally. So how am I getting along, since returning to London? My first 2 big shopping trips were pretty good. The...