I love a good recommendation and Box-E is the favourite restaurant of my cookery tutee! Hosting just 14 people, booking is imperative; Especially if you want to be at the chefs’ table to watch Elliott Lidstone astound you. Dishes created in a kitchen space where he can touch the width of his kitchen with arms outreached! …
Cabbage, lentil and bacon soup You know how some people are just on top of their stuff or others aren’t, but they are better at hiding it? Well, I am neither! And you know what. I don’t mind. It’s a bit of an ‘in’ joke with a couple of mums at school, that I am …
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Chicken, leek and mushroom pie: There are few things that hit the spot in Winter when your fingers are numb and your nose is red after a bracing Sunday walk, than a roast dinner. I know they are not the most fuss free of meals (if you do them at home!) but as long as …
Breakfast of Champions: Pancakes We all express our love in different ways, and it will be no surprise the way I do it is through food! Getting no mother of the year awards during the week (getting 2 boys ready for school each day) I often feel in the quiet backwaters of the weekend, Sunday …
Leek and Potato Soup When the days can be lacking in light, warmth and sunshine, I seek comfort and positivity elsewhere….and quite often by lunchtime the thought of tucking into a lovely bowl of hearty, comforting, and of course, fuss free soup is a positive pique on my emotional stance for the day! I feel …
Pea and Ham Soup New Years Eve Eve: sugar hangover for me, husband sleeping off daytime drinking in bed and kids arguing over the bug in the kitchen. The house smells of boiling ham hock and in my mind’s eye I am fast forwarding a week to when the house will be quiet and it’s …
Chicken Liver Pate In a photo album 20 years old full of recipe clippings from Pru Leith, Sainsbury’s magazines and my time at Bordeaux Quay cookery school sits this classic recipe from 2007. I kid you not it is scribbled on the back of a sheet of NHS instructions for how to give a ‘sample’…..(now …
Broccoli and Stilton soup Tuesday morning, T-5 and the Christmas countdown checklist has been verified, computed and coordinated with DH. Kids clubs are carefully sprinkled through the week to allow me to keep on track with the shopping, wrapping and cooking, and to be honest try and keep the stress levels down and the potential …
Christmas pudding making…. In sub-zero temperatures at the end of November; armed with an apron, bowl and wooden spoon, I bravely left my toasty warm house to embark on my first steps towards Christmas 2016. For me it’s as symbolic as the lighting of the first candle of Advent, marking the start of the new …