Salads

Fennel, orange and anchovy salad

Salade Niçoise with warm potatoes

Chicken livers in brandy with spinach and romaine salad

Warm chickpea, curly kale and pine nut salad

Grilled Halloumi, Chicory, and Mango Salad

Flambéed Pear, Blue Camembert and Walnut Salad.

Beef Goulash

Last week I returned from a fantastic reunion in Slovakia – a place I really see as my second home. I taught English to adults in a town called Roznava 18 years ago (I was one of the youngest in the class at the time), and was exposed to many great traditions – my favourite…

Linguine alle vongole

Just shy of four months ago (still inspired by a trip to Sicily), Marlini had the very good idea that we should make a Clam Vongole dish, for the simple reason that we are hardcore fish and seafood lovers at heart and clams were an ingredient, I had, not until recently, ever cooked. I am…

Blueberry Pancakes

Ever since watching Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Classic Pulp Fiction, I was made aware of the culinary delight that is the ‘blueberry pancake’. If memory serves, Butch has to return to his apartment to retrieve his father’s watch, leaving his girlfriend Fabienne to mull over the breakfast options in the far from glamorous motel. However, it…

Seafood Char Kuey Teow with Spinach

As I sit at my desk in my beloved man cave on New Year’s Eve writing my first recipe for 2018 (last twelve months were very short-changed in the output department), I look back at 2017 – a sodding awful year for so many reasons – hopeful that 2018 will compensate for the 365 days…