Lettuce Soup and more – a collection of Romanian recipes. During lockdown we travel to foreign climes in our imaginations and our kitchens, our palettes traversing borders, opening our minds to new taste experiences. Visuals help too so a cookbook with evocative photographs is a boon. Carpathia: Food From the Heart of Romania is one […]
Cockaleekie Soup
Cockaleekie Soup This is my Dad’s recipe – I think he was taught how to make it by my great-aunts who were Highlanders (from Skye!). It doesn’t have prunes in it and we’ve always varied it by what happens to be around. The mandatory ingredients (for me) are home-made stock, leeks, pearl barley and chicken. […]

