Domu – a website containing a wide range of home and kitchen products – approached me a few weeks ago and asked if I’d contribute a recipe to an online cookbook they were planning to put together. I was happy to let them have my pesto, spinach and mozzarella pastaContinue Reading
I’ve no idea why over the last few days, I’ve had an urge to make honeycomb. But I did have an urge and urges must be listened to, I reckon (well, not all urges, obviously, but honeycomb is harmless enough). As I didn’t have a clue how to make honeycomb,Continue Reading
I decided to have a bit of a change and not make a soup that simply consisted of ‘throw some veg in a pan with some stock and boil it for a bit’ but to follow a recipe instead and make something a tad more interesting. This hot and sourContinue Reading
I can’t believe how simple this is to make and how it totally transforms tofu. I could eat this as sweets, it’s that good. All you need to do is press your tofu (I used the one made by Cauldron Foods), marinate it in whatever you fancy (I used equalContinue Reading
Salter challenged me to make a cake; they’d obviously heard about my cake-making skills – which are non-existent – and wanted to laugh at me. Still, they said they’d send me some tools to use in the challenge and I’m a sucker for a gadget, so I told them I’dContinue Reading
I’d spent a long time pondering over whether to buy The Gentle Chef Cookbook, mostly because it’s self-published and I’m a still a bit snobby in that respect. I needn’t have worried though as the book is amazing. It’s beautifully laid out and produced and just as professional as anyContinue Reading
A lot of recipes – usually American – call for liquid smoke. Because they’re usually American recipes, this means liquid smoke isn’t something you’re going to find in your local Tesco. Amazon, of course, sells everything, so I bought a bottle from there and today I decided to use itContinue Reading
When Jamie Oliver first appeared in the public eye, I found him seriously annoying. All that mockney cockney cheeky chappie Essex wideboy stuff got right on my wick. Over the years, however, I’ve grown to like him. Unlike a lot of other ‘celebrity’ chefs, he seems to have remained theContinue Reading
The random number generator has spoken and the winner of a pair of tickets to VegFest London is: Valerie Myburgh Well done, Valerie – I’ll be in touch! Thanks to everyone who entered, hope to see you at VegFest.Continue Reading
I’d printed this seitan piccata recipe from the Post Punk Kitchen website a while back and finally got round to making it. I’d run out of capers and didn’t use any wine as wine belongs in a glass, not a saucepan, and although it didn’t look like any other piccataContinue Reading