Muhamara & Double Pepper Squid

Light Bites / Soup, Side, Summer

Pomegranates and pepper flakes are added to roasted peppers and walnuts in this vibrant Middle Eastern dip called Muhamara. I first tried Muhamara last week in a restaurant called Caravan. It was served underneath some grilled quails legs. Before then I’d been...

Fermented Dill Cucumbers

Side

Or to the uninitiated, gherkins. An easy recipe to make probiotic rich fermented dill cucumbers. Hands up, who used to ask their friends if they could eat the discarded gherkins from their [insert famous burger chain] burgers?  That was me, I love gherkins! A while...

Kale & Almond Pesto

Autumn, Side

A lovely dairy free pesto using superhero kale. This version of pesto is great with pasta as well as chicken. The first week at university the vast majority of the people in my halls of residence were given nicknames by my flat. Oddly enough most were food related, no...

Wild Garlic Pesto

Side, Spring

Wild garlic pesto is really versatile and perfect way to use up foraged finds. Why is it that when you’ve never really heard of something, you see it mentioned somewhere and then you can’t escape from reading about it EVERYWHERE? This seems to happen to me...

Spiced Fermented Carrot Salad

Side

Inspired by Kimchi I added a bit of spice to some plain carrots and fermented them to create this spiced fermented carrot salad. Earlier this year I had my first fermentation experiment when I gingerly (get it?) left some carrot & ginger in a jar to soak away over...

Cauliflower Tabbouleh

Salad, Side, Summer

Parsley is the real star of any tabbouleh.  In this recipe bulghur wheat is replaced with tiny pieces of cauliflower for extra veg. When searching for some foodie inspiration I often have a good rifle through my ever expanding collection of cookbooks.  Sometimes it...