Stories to Satisfy your Hunger
I have been experimenting with avocado lately. The fruit is widely used, but often in very simple ways. If you have seen one avocado toast then you have seen them all. Nothing wrong with that but I feel that there are more interesting recipes to do with avocados. So I created this lovely fragrant avocado butter. It's …
I made a recipe like this a while ago for this blog, but I wanted to make these yummy treats for my cousin and his girlfriend fiancée. However, it needed to be gluten-free. So I took the base of the recipe and started to experiment with it. I had to change some of the ingredients …
I stared at the little bundle of green leaves in the shop. £2.79 for 50g is ridiculous for wild garlic! In spring the forest is carpeted with it. I could step outside with my eyes closed and still be able to pick handfuls of the leaves just based on smell. It should not cost much …
I normally don’t like fruit in savoury dishes. I find the sweetness clashes with the other stronger flavours. I can still remember being given curries with pineapple, apples, and tinned cherries. I think it left a mark on me and has made me avoid putting them in savoury dishes for a long time. A feast …
Is this spring particularly good for violets or have I just not noticed them before. I see them everywhere in full bloom, little purple jewels hiding in the forest under the brush. Their sweet, almost grape like scent wafting through the air. And the best bit is that the amazing flowers are edible. They can …
For those of you who have walked through the countryside between late August and November and wondered what those oblong orange-red fruits are with the little black tufts at the end, they are rosehips. This year there were so many of the red berries hanging from hedgerows that it would have been a shame not …
Risottos prepared in restaurants are magical dishes. They are creamy and so packed with flavour. However, whenever I have tried to recreate this amazing experience at home, I always seem to fall short. The dish never has that rich creamy texture and always seems to be lacking flavour no matter what I do. This all …
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Fruity tea bread is a classic in our family. When you have just come home from a long day at work and want a snack before dinner, this is the first thing we always reach for. It can be eaten cold or toasted covered in dripping butter with a cup of tea in the evening. …
This little dessert is great when you are short on time, but still want a dessert to finish up a nice summer dinner. I find chia seeds amazing as they almost double in size, within a very short time and provide the texture and consistency of a thick creamy pudding with much less fuss. I …
Everyone has their comfort food, the food that they turn to when it’s been a bad day and everything seems to have gone wrong. Cheese cake is the food that I turn to when I have had a miserable day. I find it relaxing to make and the smell that it produces when it’s baking …
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