There are loads of bonuses to getting a weekly organic box of fruit and veg delivered to the door. You get the best produce of the season and you’re supporting small farmers and growers. Plus organic tastes better and is good for the environment. (Sorry to preach – I used to be copywriter for Abel […]
Man, I love a good lemon cake. It has to be really lemony and with a touch of tanginess. Which is why these buttery lemon cakes fit the bill at any time of day – I even took some to the pub* on Friday night for my brother’s birthday and people went mental for them. […]
Yesterday, a friend and I travelled to Hove to visit a friend and her two children. We needed coffee and cake. Where to go? It’s always a conundrum when you have a buggy, a 2-month-old baby and a boisterous 2-year-old. She suggested ‘VBites’, the newly-opened vegan restaurant on the seafront, which is the new venture […]
b If I was marooned on a desert island with a choice of one dish to eat until the end of my days, I would probably go for a crusty loaf of white bread with a pat of very salty butter. I would be content to eat this every day of my life. I am […]
Would you just look at the beauty of this bread selection? Ok, the photo is a little murky, but to me, this bread is a thing of marvel. I love good bread to the point of nerdiness (when I’m not eating it, I’m thinking about it or baking my own) and I think the sign […]
A savoury flapjack? Surely that’s evil? Well, these were a lunchbox favourite when I was growing up – my Mum used to make them in huge batches, using the ‘Cheesejacks’ recipe from the trusty Cranks 1980s veggie cookbook. I decided they needed a bit of revival, so I took the original recipe and gave it […]
Sometimes just the tiniest amount of coffee can make me feel really jittery and quite moody. So, in recent months I’ve been experimenting with decaff. It’s not easy, since I love the smell and taste of coffee so much, and a lot of the decaff versions taste about as appetising as wet cement. I’ve even […]
This is a feature I wrote for Channel 4 Food which never saw the light of day…*sigh*. So you can read it here instead: Retro food: so very right when you were young, so very wrong today… Think back to when you were about nine and you’d come home from games practice, all scuffed knees […]
Outdoor music festivals are great. Especially for eating at. It’s not like the days of yore where you had to be content with a greasy salmonella burger and slimy ‘festi’ noodles, then sit for days on end on the loo while your body tried to figure out what you’d done to it. You can now […]
Toast & Butter 