mulled cranberry and orange relish

mulled cranberry and orange relish I love the way that recipes can be passed along generations, and across continents and cultures. A few ye...

korean-style radish and chilli pickle

korean-style radish and chilli pickle I love Asian pickles and I don't think there's much that can't be improved by a little j...

kaya toast: a weird but wonderful breakfast of champions!

kaya toast with soy eggs It's not really weird, although it might sound a bit odd to English tastes. It's a Singapore-Malaysian thin...

sambal belacan

sambal belacan I have mentioned before my love of sambal , a spicy chilli condiment hailing from Malaysia and Indonesia. In the past year or...

christmas mincemeat: and a secret ingredient . . .

Christmas mincemeat 2014 I am curious about how this year's batch of mincemeat will turn out as I've added a "secret" ingr...

basic thai red curry paste

a basic Thai red curry paste While Thai red curry paste seems to be a universal of chilli-spiced Thai pastes, there are actually several di...

homemade peanut butter

peanut butter A few weeks ago a friend came to stay for the weekend. Normally I try to have a few things in that I know that my guests will ...

spiced pickled beetroot

a piece of pickled beetroot surrounded by pickling spices I have mentioned before that my early horror of beetroot was caused by my late fa...

apple butter (an english marmalade!)

apple butter This apple paste, also known as apple butter, was often made in the autumn with a glut of windfall apples. Packed full of sugar...

nasturtium pesto

nasturtium pesto My neighbourhood was a riot of colourful nasturtiums, that have self-seeded in any nook and cranny they can find. It was a ...

tomato and chilli jam

tomato and chilli jam I am very fond of toast , fashionable or not, particularly the cheesy kind (and a version I make with plum jam and bac...

chorizo, nutella, sour cheese and pickled apple crostini

chorizo and nutella crostini with pickled apples and labneh A few years ago I started to make a party canape that was essentially a crostin...

devilled chicken livers: a retro party bite

devilled chicken livers My father worked for a well-known drinks company in the late 1960s and 70s. It seemed to my childish eyes that life ...

artichoke heart salad with preserved lemon and honey dressing

artichoke heart salad with preserved lemon and honey dressing Here Comes The Sun Here comes the sun, here comes the sun And I say it's a...