Here’s an extremely simple recipe that comes together very quickly. It’s also a crowd pleaser and can be so easily customised that you can keep repeating it and yet never get bored (I have some suggestions for combinations at the end). It’s great as an...
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A highlight of our recent holiday in the French countryside was the incredible produce: Every fruit and vegetable was bursting with flavour. I sliced open a fennel bulb and it perfumed the entire kitchen with its fresh scent!
The best thing,...
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This recipe came together very quickly. I had guests coming over in the afternoon, and had forgotten to think about a light snack. It was noon-ish, but lunch wasn't in order; there was a nip in the air and a steady drizzle coming down. Summery...
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Are there a few staples that you make sure never to run low on in your kitchen? The ones that you know yield gold in moments both easy and challenging: 8:15 Sunday evening, after an all-day train journey; 2:30 a.m....
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I stumbled across this recipe in a very oblique manner a couple of weeks ago and can safely say it’s getting filed away in the “Make again and again” category. An article on Food52 with it’s “The One Piece of Nigella Lawson...
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The inspiration for this recipe came from a pile of zucchini we had lying in our fridge. It’s one of those vegetables we buy on the repeat and I’m a fan—but this week these particular zucchinis weren’t inspiring anything but dread that...
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We recently spent ten days at the Villa de Zoysa, a yoga retreat set on the coast of southwestern Sri Lanka. Arriving bleary-eyed at 8 am after a red...
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Biryani. The mere word is fragrant, delicate, delicious and laden with memories. It’s that special dish that gets hours of attention and drives you slightly out of your mind with its scents, so delicious that plates...
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