The Red Widow – Bloody Mary with an Oriental Twist. As a child, I was never allowed to get involved in Halloween activities. My mother thought it was an ‘American’ activity and as such, just as I wasn’t allowed to eat anything that was called a ‘cookie’ or eat ‘candy’, getting involved in ‘trick or […]
Tarragon Chicken and More
Tarragon Chicken – a Recipe and a Cautionary Tale For the last three years I’ve been trying to grow tarragon on my roof terrace. The first year, my seedlings dried out and died. The second year the snails got them! This year, I managed to grow a nice tarragon plant from seed…only to discover I’d […]
Balcony Garden 2012
Potted Balcony Gardening Take Two: It’s still less than a year since I started writing this blog. Looking back on last year, one of my great thrills last year was managing to grow a lot of my own vegetables on my very small roof terrace. I’ve got about eight square feet of space and I […]
Last of the summer tomatoes!
This year I grew three types of tomato from seed in pots on my windowsill and then on my balcony. This recipe is for a competition with http://www.lovethegarden.com, so I am quite pleased that I’ve been able to rescue the last of my summer tomatoes! Gardener’s delight – fabulous smallish salad tomatoes that I couldn’t […]
Simple Mushroom Goulash
Perfect Comfort Food for a Cold Weather Vegetarian – Mushroom Goulash: It’s getting very wintery, instead of craving salads at lunchtime I want something warming like this spicy and simple mushroom goulash! This is a very easy vegetarian version of beef goulash that I made a few years ago. The original version didn’t have celery […]
Lessons from Year One Balcony Gardening
Balcony Gardening – Growing your own The biggest lesson is that it works! This summer I’ve bought aubergines, garlic, coriander and courgettes. For the rest of the summer (from around the start of June), my vegetables and herbs have been entirely home grown. I’m rather impressed by that. For someone living alone it has been […]
Simple Ceviche
An easy ceviche recipe: This is an easy way to make something quite special. Ceviche is something you could make for a light meal, or serve as a starter. I made mine with monkfish because it is what I had in the fridge but I’ve eaten it made with scallops and I’ve seen recipes for […]
1+ Taste of Spain
Here’s my version of the fabulous looking Pork Tenderloin with Poppy Seeds and Olives in the recipes given to us by Taste of Spain at Food Blogger Connect. It was a quick and easy dish to make for supper but tasted really quite special, thanks to the olives, sherry vinegar and poppy seeds I […]
What to do with Tomatoes – Taste Testing Dreamfields Pasta
I was recently sent a few samples of Dreamfields Low GI pasta. Now, isn’t it everyone’s dream to have comfort foods that are good for you? Whilst low GI foods are not the same as low calorie foods, I am told they are much healthier and you will find some diets that are based on […]
Parmesan Baskets
I want to win a week in a Tuscany villa and there’s a great competition for bloggers running at the moment. So I’ve been trying out different recipes from Tuscany. This is a take on Italian antipasti intended to be a slightly more elegant and lighter version of bruschetta by using a handmade […]