And the mystery ingredient is...

Swede. Honestly, it is. And it's really, really good - the cake I mean. I've been very inspired since talking to the lovely lady who...

'Souper' swede

Swede gets a bit of a bad deal really, I think. Relegated to being confused with turnips, lumped into that class of 'root veg' that ...

Old-fashioned cookbooks, bags of nostalgia and Boeuf a la movie - a random recipe

I have recently inherited a collection of old recipe books from my mum.  A couple are 'fundraising' efforts, with recipes provided b...

Another weekend away. Tut tut...

Listen! Can you hear it? No – neither. It’s very quiet ! That’s because there’s only me at home. Yes, really, 6 p.m. on a Friday evening and...

Pink soup and a not so blue Blue after all

Soup of the week is roasted beetroot without horseradish cream. I am hoping (perhaps over ambitiously) that the pink-ness of the soup will a...