red onion

Roast Clay-Pot Lemon Chicken with Garlic and Chilli

Chimichurri Tuna Melt Panini

Potato Salad with Pickled Herring

Menemen – Spicy Turkish Scrambled Eggs

Fragrant Spinach Rice

Burger Me Senseless

Fettuccine with Anchovy, Garlic and Lemon

Just over a week ago, Marlini and I decided to make the most of having to follow the very sensible guidance and stay at home during the awful Coronavirus pandemic, and put out frustration to better use – the kitchen. So often have we complained to each other for not having enough time, too tired,…

Salade Niçoise with warm potatoes

Well, this is a first. Creating a recipe, photographing it, eating it then, four weeks later, sitting in a hotel room in Monterey, California – suffering with my worst jet lag to date thinking that, however brainless I feel, why not use this opportunity to dedicate some constructive time to Love the kitchen?. I have…

Chicken livers in brandy with spinach and romaine salad

Twenty years ago, almost to the day, I made the most spontaneous decision in my life… I accepted a job in a town I had never heard of in a country I could just about pin on a map. Following what was a bad choice of University, I was encouraged by my very supportive folks…

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…