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An Easy Mediterranean Menu for 10
I enjoy cooking and I believe I’m pretty decent at it, but as soon as you have more than 5-6 people to feed, things get a bit tricky. Suddenly the quantities don’t work and your pots and pans are too small and if you plan to cook several courses, it all turn..
Pa Amb Tomàquet
I have just got back from Barcelona and am still not recovered from this unfortunate turn of events. The sun, the sea, the crazy restaurant hours (I swear locals don’t even contemplate dinner before 10PM), the tapas, the seafood, all gone. To ease the transi..
Sage
I develop strangely obsessive relationships with herbs and go through phases where I compulsively use the one that happens to be my favourite at that moment. I believe it started with basil many years ago and I have now covered most of the widely known herbs..
Jallab Syrup
It is said that one of the great joys of getting older is knowing yourself better. And indeed, I have recently had a moment of absolute self-knowledge: as soon as I read the ingredient list of Jallab, I knew I had to have it. Date and raisin syrup, rose wate..
Pomegranates
Some people say that the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge was not an apple but a pomegranate (although according to Wikipedia, it may also have been a fig, a carob, an etrog, a pear, a quince, a datura or possibly some grapes or mushrooms). I perso..
I Have Nothing to Cook
When people say they have nothing to wear, it usually doesn’t mean they have nothing to wear. It means they have nothing to wear that they feel like wearing at that moment. I have a similar thing with cooking. When I stare at the produce in the market and ca..
Viking Smoked Salt
So, from yesterday’s floor-length black lace to today’s boiled eggs with salt – that’s quite a fall. But this is how we roll on this postmodern blog! Still, if I wanted to make a point, I could say that the dress and the Viking Smoked Salt have something in ..
Roasted Cauliflower with Butter, Garlic and Tarragon
There are people who say they simply LIKE how healthy things taste and there’s honestly NOTHING they’d rather eat than kale and quinoa. I am not one of those people. I would happily eat bacon and Pavlovas every day, if it wasn’t bad for me. So when I started..
7 Health Cheats
After covering condensed milk, caramel and marzipan, the time has come for a health-related post. I admit that I have never been particularly health-concious: years ago at a group training when people were asked to list their values/priorities in life, I was..
The Colours of Marzipan
Today’s post was supposed to be about something totally different. About something conceptual and intelligent and … stuff. Well, maybe not quite, but I do have the posts mapped out some time in advance, so that I can plan and don’t wake up post-less and pa..