I love watering the garden. Especially in the afternoon after a hot summers day. The smell of damp from still-warm concrete and soil. Shoes off, wet grass between my toes.…
As mentioned in my previous post, another side dish for our Christmas Day roast were these roasted carrots with butter, cumin and orange from River Cottage Everyday, – a book…
This is the second time I’ve made these roast potatoes from Jerusalem and they are hands-down the best I have ever tasted. Partly due to the duck fat (that will…
What’s the opposite of the Grinch? Probably me. I’m one of those annoying people who loves, loves, loves Christmas. I love everything about it. I love shopping for presents (in…
Ok, so I know I said there would be no fancy food styling in this blog, but I’m a tad ashamed of this dinner shot (taken on my Blackberry) of the Moroccan…
I know I said Moroccan food wasn’t just about tagine and cous cous. But for one meal, everyday, a tagine was. And not just at my table. A tagine (or…
This post is dedicated to all the things I ate on the street in Morocco, that perhaps most travel guides will advise you not to. But I say go for…
I only tried one ‘pastilla’ in Morocco. But I didn’t need to try any more. This one was as good as a pastilla could possibly get. I was banging on…
Just thinking about Morocco makes my nostrils flare. Maybe that sounds a bit odd, but the mere mention of the word sends my senses in to a frenzy. If I…
I hate wasting food. So tonight, I’m being economical and preparing a bread themed dinner for my hosts Sarah and Jules. We have about three sticks of day-old-baguette that could…
