rice porridge for breakfast: congee, juk or babur

rice porridge for breakfast: congee, juk or babur I'm up with the birds this morning, together with Mia, my elderly cat, who meows imper...

burn baby burn (or heathcliffe's chilli burn odyssey: a cautionary tale)

dried chillies, used for illustrative purposes only! What do you do when one of your dearest friends phones with a problem? Of course you li...

Goat's cheese and blackberry salad with blackberry vinaigrette

Goat's cheese and blackberry salad with blackberry vinaigrette I live a simpler life these days. Part of it is a case of cutting my coa...

celebrate national hotdog day with a chicago dog with the works

a chicago dog with the works Much as I love and am curious about history, it seems that as far as family history goes that for the first tw...

it's official! borough market demo on 25 July!

Borough Market tweet: it's official! It's official! The tweet is out! Borough Market have just confirmed my appearance in their dem...

an easy vegetarian curry (pea, egg and potato)

pea, egg and potato curry I arrived at University several decades ago with a box of books, a suitcase of vintage clothing and a complete ina...

celebrate chinese new year with dragon cookies (loong peng)

dragon cookies (loong peng) When Malaysian Chinese people found out that I was born in the Year of the Dragon , they cooed and petted me. ...

a winter warmer: felicity cloake's perfect borscht

borscht soup In a bizarre reversal of the Goldilocks story, a couple in Siberia, spending a night in their holiday cottage, were disturbed ...

yotam ottolenghi's iranian vegetable stew with dried lime

iranian vegetable stew with dried lime If you were to look at an old-fashioned atlas , you would see Great Britain as a small island, surrou...

nasi goreng (malaysian fried rice)

nasi goreng It's not often that I turn from mild-mannered cook by day into my foodie crime-fighting alter-ego; righting food wrongs with...

a story of a Goth, a grandmother and baklava, with a sting in the tale!

honey nut baklava I am thinking about Christmas baking and alternatives to the usual spiced cakes. I want to make some baklava , filo pastry...