The daily onion

Sometimes despite all of my attempts to be original, I end up making two versions of the same thing within weeks of one another. This morning when I was uploading my food photos from the weekend I noticed that I already had a photo called ‘onion tart’ and that I had uploaded it a mere [...]

It is better to love and to have lost…

I have a confession to make… until Autumn this year, I had never eaten a chestnut. Not being a huge nut person (insert the obvious joke here), I assumed that I wouldn’t like them – it just goes to show how wrong you can be. From the first taste of this soup, I was hooked and [...]

The Salad Days of Winter

Strangely enough, lately I have been really craving salad. This is strange because, well, it’s the middle of winter. In the last few days as the temperature has dropped to the low ‘teens, I have been munching cold green leaves and enjoying it. My favourite salad of the minute is a bastardised version of a [...]