Salads

Smoked Mackerel, Blueberry, and Fennel Salad

Watercress and pomegranate salad

Salade Niçoise

Savoury Thyme, Aleppo Pepper and Cheddar Crepes

A good few months ago, I started to dabble with making savoury crepes which had a real flavour irrespective of any additional toppings or fillings, which is often the case. I mean, there cannot be too many folk who crave plain pancakes…. or are there? I certainly missed the boat insofar as getting this recipe…

Potato Salad with Pickled Herring

In our pursuit for quick, easy, and dare I say it….. darn tasty (admittedly those not into pickled herring may strongly disagree) meals during the lock-down, Marlini intimated that a potato salad could be a great idea. For me to make, of course! I also had to fire up 1981 The Visitors album by ABBA…

Sourdough Bread part 1: The Starter

It is hard to imagine that over 365 days have passed since the UK entered lock down 1.0 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and I, like thousands of others used this opportunity to try and master sourdough bread. Quickly jumping back to basics, sourdough is a naturally and traditional leavened bread which used a starter…

Chickpea Hummus

When I first started to elaborate my bread section, I also intended, in parallel, to work on recipes which go really well with the bread varieties I have made. Confession time: I am falling very far being in creating blog posts which include all the toppings I have made to date. In earlier posts, I…