lemon zest

Chilli Tomato and Prawn Cuttlefish Ink Fettuccine

Roast Clay-Pot Lemon Chicken with Garlic and Chilli

Potato Salad with Pickled Herring

Smoked Mackerel Rillettes with Aleppo Pepper

Fragrant Spinach Rice

Linguine alle vongole

Fresh Egg Pasta with Cuttlefish Ink

My very first attempt to make fresh pasta dough can be chalked up as a dismal failure. I was barely thirteen at the time, insisted on being bought a pasta machine for my birthday, which I would use all the time. Reality painted a very different picture.. the dough just jammed up in the rollers,…

White and Sweet Potato Cheese Rosti

The very first time I had a Rosti (or so I thought) was at the tender age of 10, when the mother of one of my classmates visited our class to offer a ‘show and tell‘ about Judaism to our culturally challenged group in the small town I grew up in. As this was over…

Boeuf Bourguignon

The very first time I had ever tried Boeuf Bourguignon was at the age of 10 when staying with my great aunt Micheline in the Loire Valley. Every summer, my family would spend a couple of weeks with our relatives in Meung-sur-Loire (country home of Georges Simenon’s fictional detective Jules Maigret – for the literary…

Black onion seed and sesame bread

Please accept my apologies for the slight hiatus on Love the kitchen. I have not run out of inspiration or ideas – far from it. In the last fortnight I have been dealing with the loss of Aslan, my very much loved cat who suddenly passed away; entertaining parents for a long weekend (great opportunity…