I may have mentioned once or twice before on this site that I am lover of all things Yotam Ottolenghi. I love his cafes and restaurants (a must when I’m in London) and I love his recipes, which we make often here at home. His dishes are vibrant and inventive, and bring together diverse culinary…
Category: Food
Korean Pulled Pork and Pineapple Pizza with Gochujang Sauce
When we bought our little cottage, we couldn’t resist getting a pizza oven. We find any excuse to fire it up – literally, the only weather that stops us is a hurricane! Our oven uses both wood and gas, so we have the flexibility depending on our mood and time constraints. Recently, I found myself…
Korean Gochujang Pulled Pork
My latest flavour obsession is Gochujang, a fermented soybean and chile pepper paste, and one of the building blocks of Korean cuisine. It’s salty and spicy with a hint of sweetness, and to use an in vogue culinary term, it’s packed with umami. I have never been to Korea and I’m not good with spice,…
Wine Safari, Monachyle Mhor
One Sunday morning, in deepest darkest October we left Edinburgh at stupid o’clock and made our way to Mhor84 outside of Callander. Not a normal thing for us to do, but this was no typical day we had signed up to. After months of trying to make the dates work, we were about to embark on a…
Grilled Peaches with Burrata
We have had such lovely weather here in the UK over the last few weeks, it is probably our summer to be honest, we are never that lucky to have such sunshine for the whole summer! The BBQ has been out quite a few times now, taking advantage of the warmth well into the evening….
Creme de Cassis Jam
I may have mentioned once or twice before I am a bit of a fan of cooking or baking with booze. So when I was left with a boozy pile of fruit from my Creme de Cassis attempts, I thought jam would be the perfect thing to make. Granted most of the brandy will burn…
BBQ Chicken with a Chipotle Bourbon Sauce
BBQ season is almost here, in fact over the Easter Bank Holiday we managed to have our first BBQ of the year! It wasn’t raining for once but maybe a bit too windy to sit outside and enjoy our food! Whilst the usual burgers, sausages and corn on the cob are always a hit, it…
Creme de Cassis
Last year we had an abundance of blackcurrants in our little garden, and I mean an abundance! I spent hours stripping the small juicy berries of the bushes and it looked like they had barely been touched! Now, since I have been slowly adapting to the good life (and got a little bored with the…
Flour & Grape, London
A work trip had me spending my days in the vicinty of London Bridge. This area has no shortage of good eateries, however since the Flour & Grape was on my ‘to visit’ list and was a short walk from the office; it was a no-brainer really. So one night after a relatively late finish,…
BBQ Peaches with Honey Yogurt and Mint
It’s that time of year again, when we get a week or two of summer and its time to dust off the BBQ and make good use of the outdoors before packing it all away again for another long winter. I’ve been doing a bit more BBQ’ing over the last couple of summers, particularly with…
Queen of Everything 