This post would perhaps be better entitled the triumph of hope over experience. It is mid-March and snow is whirling outside my window. This morning Rene Redzepi tweeted a picture of snow covered patio chairs and announced spring had come to Copenhagen. Up in Aarhus we are on snow warnings so severe there are threats […]
This is a nice variation on traditional hummus with a pretty spectacular colour. It came about from having tahini, walnuts and raw beetroot lying around and a bit of googling. The same googling led me to a website devoted to the love of beetroot, which includes sections with challenging titles such as ‘you think you […]
Foraging seems to have come into the culinary mainstream these days, but living in Central London I have had little scope to engage in one of the few positive developments of the recession zeitgeist. Wild garlic is the one exception to this, due to it being more or less a weed that tends to take […]
I have, in fairness, only celebrated Cinco de Mayo once. And by celebrated, I mean I spent 93% of the celebration hiding in the bathroom of a Mexican restaurant in Melbourne which had inexplicably decided to celebrate by passing snakes and lizards out among the diners. I cannot be dealing with snakes. Especially in Australia. […]
Having a bit of a sauce/dip theme at the moment. The weather was so incredibly lovely in London today, all sunshine and blue skies, that I am pre-emptively feeling like it’s Summer, and with Summer comes the inevitable barbecues. I am also somewhat inspired to cook more middle-eastern food now that I live near many, […]
The Canalcook is in the process of moving country yet again, so the posts have been a bit sporadic of late. Despite hating eating any form of cooked egg (this extends as far as omelettes), I have a weird love of mayonnaise, particularly in conjunction with chips/fries. I’m guessing this can be blamed on my […]
This was the dinner party starter, its quick, easy, and can be made ahead of time, storing the pesto in jars. If you happen to live somewhere blessed with good, fresh, flavourful tomatoes, feel free to use those exclusively instead of the sundried tomatoes. Unfortunately, the Netherlands in winter is not one of those places. […]
I am fairly sure I first had this in Barcelona a few years ago, where the Catalans seem to use it like Irish people use gravy or ketchup. It is a traditional thick, spicy Spanish sauce. This is a cheat recipe because I did not use actual chilli’s, hand roasted (I live in The Netherlands, […]
This is a rough interpretation of a half remembered dip which my dad used to make for us when I was a child, as part of a mezze. As is a frequent occurrence at such meals, once my dad acknowledged that this dish was popular with the whole family, he inexplicably stopped making it. It […]
Yesterday was my first attempt at making pesto, and it did not go quite according to plan. I used a hand held blender, which due to some logistical mismanagement, my finger decided to experience, just as the pesto was ready. The look on my housemate’s face as I explained that she probably shouldn’t try the […]
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