Drunken Chicken Wings with Blue Cheese Dip

I love red meat especially a nice steak and don’t get me started on smoked bacon. However, I don’t get the appeal of pork and most of the time chicken is a bit, well, meh.

Roasted Grapes with Feta and Walnuts

I love the idea of roasting any fruit to bring out its flavour and use it in either sweet or savoury dishes afterwards. 

Cauliflower Chickpea and Pomegranate Salad

Last week I read two recipes that caught my eye and I decided to experiment with them. One was the BBQ Aubergine with Jewelled Rice Salad from Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich of Honey and Co on the Financial Times – recipe here (paywall). The other was Cauliflower and Chickpea Salad  from Nigella’s new book […]

Butternut Squash and Chorizo Salad with Harissa and Feta

This salad was born out of left over chorizo after I made a batch of chilli and a sad looking butternut squash that I had bought for a curry I never made!

Warm Chicken and Bacon Salad with Honey and Mustard Dressing

  We are officially in Summer mode so salad it is!

Crispy Duck and Watermelon Salad

I recently had a crispy duck salad in a local restaurant, Clancy’s and I was mad to try to make something similar at home. It was proper crispy, shredded duck. I was under strict instructions when making this to make sure it was really crispy. Got that? Crispy.

Overnight Oats or Bircher Muesli

This is another bandwagon that I am shamelessy jumping on! Nearly all healthy eating websites are promoting this as a convenient breakfast. I don’t think they’d approve of my version using so much Greek yogurt though. Basically, overnight oats are 1 part oats mixed with 1 part liquid and left to soak overnight in the […]

Warm Beef and Blue Cheese Salad

I can’t wait til there’s a grand stretch in the evenings. Winter light is no friend to food photography, I mean, I struggle at the best of times. So you’ll have to trust me when I say this salad tasted and looked much better than the photo suggests.