Ever since I bought a book from the Rukmini Iyer Roasting Tin series I have been playing around more with one pot dishes. Her books are fabulous and full of inspiration, I highly recommend them. To be honest during the week I am slow to turn on the oven and just want food I […]
I drafted this post and scheduled it to publish last week. And then we got a late burst of Summer. So I held off and the temperatures most obliging plunged over the last couple of days. No better time to post a simple recipe for a warming, filling soup.
I’ve shared my love for the spice mix known as Ras el Hanout many times before. I also tend to share recipes using blood oranges at this time every year. So this year I decided to combine the two and here is my Moroccan Chicken Salad with Blood Oranges and Feta. And because I like […]
Lamb Tagine is one of those dishes I have been trying to perfect over the years. I love lamb and I love spice, so it should be a no brainer really, I should love making Lamb Tagine. Sadly, any recipe I have tried in the past has let me down.
Those of you who follow my Facebook or Instagram pages will already be well aware (read – bored of me prattling on about the fact) that I was in London for a month. Hence the lack of blog posts.
On a recent Monday evening I had a real craving for comfort food. I know it’s July, but Mondays are still Mondays! It didn’t want anything too rich and still wanted it to be a little healthy so I was feeling a bit stuck. I had a full head of cauliflower that was beginning to […]
In his book Jerusalem, Ottolenghi describes Ras el hanout as “a spice blend brought to Jerusalem by North African Jews consisting of mainly sweet and hot spices, toasted and ground. There isn’t one definitive recipe, every spice shop in North Africa…has its own ‘flagship’ spice blend with a typical set of secret components.”