I've been in dire need of comfort food lately, and comfort food for me usually involves chicken and rice. Last week I made a quick avgolemono soup (chicken pieces simmered in bought stock, eggs and lemons whisked in at the end, then pre cooked rice added) because I've had this cold/flu thing that's been hanging …
Blood Orange, Almond and Pistachio Cake
I have finally succumbed to the blood orange fever that's been going around instagram and Twitter.I will now admit to never having actually eaten a blood orange, so after everyone was going on about them, I thought I should. Once I'd seen this recipe by Kellie at Food to Glow, then I really knew I …
Halloumi & Leek Bread Pudding
Bread pudding as I've always known it is a great big bowl of spiced, fruited and sugared bread, all smooshed and squished together with milk until it's one homogenous mass, and then baked until it becomes a slab of darkly sweet perfection. A brilliant and thrifty way to use up stale or old bread and …
My First Christmas Cake
Yes. I know. How can I have been alive for all of my considerable years and not made a Christmas Cake? To be honest, I'm not sure, but I hadn't. I have now, but let's just say it took me a long time to get around to it.I've made cakes for Christmas, yes. But not …
Persimmons Everywhere
My American friends have spoken about persimmons for as long as have known them. I'd always wondered how Mr Gube's Persimmon Pudding would taste - not really knowing what a persimmon was - but sadly I think the recipe died with him. I never did get around to finding out what they were until recently when …
Microwave Christmas Pudding
Yep! Microwave. I thought I'd lost this, but just dug it out again. :)We made this last year at my Mum's in Cyprus, and as we were on the watch for powercuts, it had to be fast. It turns out that this is really, really good. Light and tender on the 1st and 2nd days, …
Belly porchetta, with Christmas flavours
First, apologies if things look slightly out of kilter for a while. Blogger in their wisdom have been making changes, and LiveWriter, which I use to compose and publish posts, will not talk to Blogger any more. A fix is being worked on, but will not be available until next year.We went out for a …
Christmas: Kourabiedes, or Greek Butter Cookies
I have a cookbook. (Nobody is surprised at this.) I have 2 copies of the same cookbook, because the first one fell apart. My Mum used it to learn to cook Greek food for my Dad after they got married, then I found it, and started reading it. It had a cover, back then. One …
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A good day
Not strictly a food post, or a recipe post. But a post nonetheless. It's been a hard week, and the planes taking off from Cyprus to bomb the oil fields was just the last straw. Facebook is full of people talk talk talking non-stop about the bombings, the politics, analysing over and over again but …
Albert’s Table: a revisit
They say never go back, but when it comes to excellent restaurants I see no reason not to revisit again and again. Once such place is Albert’s Table, in South Croydon. I was first alerted to them by a Jay Rayner column, so we visited back in September 2011. We’ve been a fair few times …
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