Over the past few weeks, I have been making the transition from studying all hours of day and night combined with two part-time jobs, to a more leisurely life working a part-time job that currently involves sitting around a room complaining about the industrial conflict which currently prevents me from doing my job. It’s been […]
I have a slight obsession with Turkish grocers. I keep reading articles raving about Danish food culture, the NOMA effect and so on but I’m not sure I have seen the effects of it as much here in Aarhus. Every single article mentions how you can now buy foraged herbs in Danish supermarkets. I’m not […]
This is a luxurious, comforting winter dish, and one that doesn’t actually break the bank. Osso buco is veal shank, and literally means bone with a hole in Italian. I first tried osso buco at the Garrison in Bermondsey and was hooked, especially by the bone marrow in the middle (delicious if you don’t think […]
This recipe is adapted from Claus Meyer’s ‘Almanak‘ an incredibly beautiful and varied Danish cookbook that makes me wish I actually could understand Danish. Claus Meyer is one of the founders of the New Nordic Cuisine concept who, along with Rene Redzepi, set up Noma. Meyer is a household name in Denmark, and his cookbooks […]
Over the past month, I have been in a self-imposed study/job hunting hibernation. It turns out that finding a full-time job in a country where you do not speak the language, and do not live during a recession is not a walk in the park. The same goes for professional law exams. Shocking, I know. […]
This is a simple and healthy salad adapted from the Casa Moro cookbook. They call it a Winter tabbouleh, but as can be seen from the photo, I am not a huge believer in eating certain types of food at certain types of the year. I tend to eat a lot of tabbouleh around exam […]
This is an unusual recipe, and one which caught my eye from an unlikely source. I have never been a huge fan of celebrity cookbooks, nor have I ever read a chicklit book, so when I was given Marian Keyes baking book as a gift I was more than a little bit surprised. However, on […]
This is just a simple, incredibly rich and moist chocolate cake from Ottolenghi: The Cookbook . It is very easy to make, and it is big on impact ( a little goes a long way). It is also coeliac friendly, as it is completely gluten free. The trick is in the two layers of the […]
This is an adaptation of an old Yottam Ottolenghi recipe. I have never been a huge fan of polenta, though this was more on a theoretical than practical basis as I couldn’t really remember what it tasted like. It tends to be served in Venice with quite a lot of dishes, and usually (in […]
This is a combination of the recipe for Zetter Townhouse rum and raisin syrup for a hot toddy and Rick Stein’s Pedro Ximenez and raisin ice cream. I made the syrup during the London snow a few weeks ago, after trying it at the Zetter, smug in the knowledge that I was prepared for alcoholic […]
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