When I do a weekend shop and I haven’t quite decided what I want to cook sometimes I’ll go along to the supermarket, see what’s on sale or special offer and base my Sunday lunch around what I find. A great place to look for bargains is in the reduced section. A lot of meat…
Category: spices
Batch Cooking: Moroccan Chicken Stew
Recently life seems to be getting increasingly busier. I love to meal plan and I love to cook but sometimes it’s just impossible, impractical or I really don’t have the time. When The Boyfriend and I are on different schedules it can also be really difficult cooking for one without wasting ingredients or cooking too…
Mixed Potato Spanish Tortilla
For many many years a proper Spanish tortilla has been one of my absolute favourite dishes. It’s the dish that got me to like eggs. In my early years I really vehemently hated eggs, even now I only like them in scrambled or omelette form, I can’t eat the whites and the yolks separately (I…
Simply Cook Recipe Round-Up
Last month I wrote about how I’d been giving Simply Cook’s recipe kit boxes a go and how pleased I was with the first recipe which was one of my favourites: Jerk Chicken. I promised I’d let you know how I got on with the rest of the box. I’ve only made three out of the…
Spicy Fish Stew
One of my favourite things about cooking is that once you’ve got the hang of a few basic skills, understand flavours and have a well stocked store cupboard of herbs and spices you don’t really have to plan and prep so much and can make things on a whim and mix up your recipe as…
Aubergine & Feta Dip
Mediterranean tapas/mezze style eating is pretty popular in my family. With a lot of summers spent in Spain when I was younger and a definite Greek influence from our neighbours who pretty much became family, we seem to have adopted a bit of a Mediterranean attitude towards the way we eat. There’s nothing more inviting than a…
Spiced Banana Loaf
For my birthday this year two of my oldest friends got me such a great foodie gift: a subscription to the monthly spiceboxes from The Spicery. The Spicery sends you all the spices you need to do a curry night in for four people, so you can forget the takeaways! My first month’s box gave me everything I needed…
Winter Spiced Biscuits with Fresh Orange Glaze
It seems the weather has taken a dramatic turn for the worse and very suddenly we have been plunged into the cold depths of winter. I’ve been bulk buying wooly jumpers and planning what I’m going to give everyone for Christmas! I’ve also started thinking about all the yummy food that comes with the winter…
Brigade, London Bridge
For a catch up dinner with my school friends, I actually ventured outside of Soho for a change and went out in London Bridge this week. It’s been a while since I’ve been in the area and upon exiting the station I got immediately lost amongst all the engineering works that definitely weren’t there last…
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