Salads & Sides

If you missed my explanation from last week’s post, I’m doing a 3 part series of easy lunch recipes 🙂 The aim is for them to be useful and inspiring – created kind of like templates so it’s easy to make swaps (that way you’ll…

I’m currently in Leeds without any food, awaiting my grocery delivery to replenish my fridge shelf. It’s kind of torturous to be writing about food (especially vegetables and fruit) when all I have right now is dry pasta, spices and a bunch of frozen…

Every. Single. Year. My dad brings bagfuls of broad beans back from the allotment. When they’re young and fresh, they’re a dream. So tender and sweet, they’re perfect when boiled and eaten straight up with a scattering of salt. As the weeks go on…

I think I’m with a lot of people on the fact that I prefer carrots in raw form. Boiled or steamed ones can be mushy and bland, even the good ones! There’s something so satisfying about that cold, crisp snap of a carefully cut…

Valentine’s day is rapidly approaching and given that I hardly ever create occasion-themed food I thought it would be a nice change to make a Valentine’s menu plan. I know that anyone living in London is completely screwed if they don’t get a reservation…

I’ve recently become obsessed with stacking rings. I was already in love with generally wearing them so when I saw midi rings that meant you could get EVEN MORE rings onto your hands, I was SOOOLD. I’ll always buy more rings than I can…

So I came home from school early today, and it was lunch time plus I’d woken up at 6 to write some super scary biology essay about antibiotic resistant bacteria (Jeez you guys, superbugs are cray. Promise me you won’t misuse or overuse antibiotics,…