Winter

Swirly, flaky and perfumed with cardamom. These apple chelsea buns are so bloody good. The slices of sticky apple through the layers are so delicious and help keep the buns moist too!…

Ahh spaghetti bolognese, a definite comfort food in many countries but particularly a British staple (although the version most Brits make is nothing like a classic ragu all bolognese – especially as we usually serve it with spaghetti which would be blasphemy in Italy).…

After having Korean fried chicken in a restaurant a while ago, *that* spicy gochujang sauce stuck in my mind. It’s like a grown up version of the sauce on sweet & sour chicken. I made it at home, using it to coat crispy tofu…

We’ve had our first proper days of Spring sunshine and nothing signifies that more to me than the fact that we were able to go foraging for wild garlic last weekend. To say goodbye to the Winter season, a blood orange poppy seed cake…

I made this celeriac risotto a few weeks ago for our Valentine’s meal and we fell in love with it! Risotto is one of those dishes that I always forget about. Then I remember, I make it, and I’m like ‘DAMN, RISOTTO IS SO…

Every time rhubarb season rolls around, I’m IN on it, buying it as often as I can make an excuse to! This recipe is for a super simple rhubarb tart, which really lets the flavour shine. It’s possibly the simplest a rhubarb tart can…

Hassleback squash!! Look at it!! So fancy!! Andy yet, deceptively simple to make. The idea here is that we’re creating the most surface area on our butternut squash so that the garlic-sage butter (uh huh!) seeps into all the gaps for maximum coverage. So…

Valentines day is aaaalmost here and as it’s my birthday the day before / it’s very hard to book a meal out on v-day, we’ll be staying in! I developed these cookie dough pots with a gooey centre to serve just 2 people; they’re…

A few weeks ago I went to Ottolenghi’s new restaurant, ROVI, with some friends. We all had some delicious drinks to start and their gin sour cocktail had caught my eye – my mum had mentioned it to me as she’d been to the…

I held a little Christmas dinner at my flat this week for some of my friends. Since I’m basically veggie and one of my friends is vegan I just went full on plant-based for the meal. I made a super delicious hassleback squash with…