Sides

Steamed Broccoli with garlic and red chilli

Couscous with roasted Mediterranean vegetables

Roast Pak Choi

Couscous

Chunky Chips with Herbs and Balsamic Vinegar

Anyone reading this right now must be thinking that I have either become bone idle, or am totally exhausted in the ideas camp. I mean. Really, ‘chips’? Surely these typically arrive on plate from two sources – the local chippy, or from some bag of processed delights which live in the freezer. I have spent…

Menemen – Spicy Turkish Scrambled Eggs

Just over a month ago, I had travelled from Yorkshire > London > Amsterdam > Paris > London by train for various work commitments, then, getting up at 0300 embarked on an 11 hour trip to Turkey. All by cattle class. If anyone is seething with envy – please don’t. Economy travel is not what…

Onion, Red Chilli, and Black Olive Bread

Confession time… this is my third attempt for turning my seemingly good idea at the time into something really good. Normally, I get an idea in my head, run with it, and the end result, I’d say 80% of the time is what I was expected. Sometimes it is even better, other times… well.. how…

Gazpacho soup with garlic and rosemary ciabatta

The very first time I made Gazpacho soup was when I was visiting my sister who was living in a small village of Vilcabamba, near Loca in Ecuador. The required ingredients were cheap, plentiful, locally produced and so fresh. Ecuador certainly opened up my eyes (and palette) to some amazing local flavours and recipes, some…