The secret to a good curry, our Thai cooking teachers repeatedly emphasized, is in the curry paste. A curry paste can make or break a curry - which would[...]

Tapenade 1 jar (240g) seedless green olives, drained 1 large clove garlic, minced 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp capers, drained 1 handful toasted almonds, halved 5[...]

Ok, maybe 'healthy' is overselling it a little, but at least this version contains nearly all the food groups and definitely has more veggies than the average.[...]

I usually have yoghurt and cereal for breakfast on weekdays, normally with some raspberries, strawberries or blueberries thrown in. Or, if I'm fresh out of[...]

You can't get much more Dutch than 'stamppot'. Based on the most important of national staples, the potato, the stamppot has earned itself a place in history,[...]

My go-to easy meals are almost always pastas - I can think of few feel-good meals that are easier and less time consuming to make. What I love most is that you[...]

I've been holding out on posting this recipe for a while because whenever I make them, I forget to write down the quantities - it's more of an "a little of[...]

Rhubarb - so pretty in the crate, but what do you do with it? Lots, it turns out - rhubarb pie, for one, or rhubarb jam, or... rhubarb yoghurt, to switch up[...]

Eat healthy and you’ve got a better chance of staying healthy - and that’s especially important now that we’re in the middle of a global[...]

As the world around me is locking down, I’m looking for ways to stay sane. There’s the books I haven’t read, and the movies I haven’t[...]

I’m usually pretty bad at estimating how much food I need. With 5 different supermarkets within a couple of hundred metres from here, I can always head[...]

Ahhh, the joys of meatballs in tomato sauce. They serve them in just about a dozen different countries - as albondigas in Spain, polpetta al sugo in Italy, or[...]

It’s Saturday morning and day 6 of working from home is officially behind me. Izzy and I have survived week 1. Life is weird, and getting weirder, and as[...]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE risotto. And I love it creamy, so creamy that it feels like it melts in my mouth - with lots of veggies, with meat, with fish; you can go[...]

I used to make home made pesto all the time - the kind we all know so well, with pine nuts and basil. But sometimes it’s nice to try something different.[...]