Beetroot salad with freekeh makes a colourful lunch in January! Do you ever have phases wearing certain colours? Yes of course I’ve had a student-y black phase but beyond that I’ve had a blue phase, a neutral phase, a green phase and lately a red phase. For a while I am drawn to certain colours […]
Jumpstart 2015: I Quit Sugar Too
Five weeks ago, without much thought beforehand, I decided to overhaul my eating habits. After a couple of false starts earlier in the year, the coincidence of a Monday falling on the 1st of the month was enough to kickstart me into being more resolved than in a long time to make meaningful changes to […]
Cavolo Nero Banana Smoothie – Vitamix Recipe
Cavolo nero banana smoothie may not sound that appealing but it’s sweetened with frozen banana chunks and agave nectar. Packed with all the nutrients you’d expect in dark green brassica veg, it’s a worthy contribution to your five a day without being as punitive as you might imagine. My Vitamix power blender was originally gifted […]
Chocolate Prune Kale Smoothie – Vitamix Recipe
New Year, new leaves and this morning lots of us will be turning over them. This chocolate prune kale smoothie is a tasty way to keep on track. I speak with a certain amount of smugness. I turned over my new leaf back on December 1st, a pre-emptive strike on the damage that might otherwise […]
Red and White Christmas Homewares
When I was a girl, one of my favourite jobs at my grandmother’s house was to lay the table. Probably I get my hoarding of crockery gene from her and there was an aladdin’s cave of items we never seemed to use. She would tell me “those knives are for fish”, “those dishes are for […]
Chocolate Christmas Cake Hack using Lindt Christmas Reindeer
This is not so much a chocolate Christmas cake as a Christmas cake covered in chocolate. I get some whacky parcels show up that these days. When I agreed to received some samples of Lindt chocolate “to cook with” I got more than I bargained for. It was like something out of One Foot in […]
Leftover Panettone Stuffing with Orange
A simple tasty way to use up leftover panettone (Italian Christmas Cake) is to use it in stuffing accompaniment for Sunday roast dinner. Big boxes of panettone are a common Christmas leftover in many homes. Those giant sweet dough cakes that look so pretty in their cardboard boxes, never seem to get opened before New Year’s […]
Easy Pumpkin Yogurt Cake
An autumnal spiced Pumpkin Yogurt Cake topped with caramel buttercream and pecans, cut into lunchbox-friendly bars. Updated 2026 · Now with printable recipe When I first moved to London, over half my life ago, I wasn’t the only person excited by the bright lights of the capital. It seems strange now but back in the […]
December food reviews
The last of this week’s review posts – see also Wednesday’s December Book Reviews and yesterday’s December Kitchen Additions (homeware). Today it’s December food reviews although some things are not strictly for Christmas. First up, Tesco finest Christmas range – Tesco truly spoiled several food bloggers this month with a bumper hamper of Christmas products as […]
Jamie Oliver Comfort Food Book Launch
Jamie Oliver knows how to throw a party, I’ll give him that. When you get an invite to a Jamie Oliver book launch, you go. Held at Recipease, his cookery school in Notting Hill. It was a party for bloggers, vloggers and social media mavens to talk about food. Quite how I ended up in […]
December kitchen additions
Continuing my sweep of products tried out recently – today it’s a homeware themed December Kitchen Additions. See also yesterday’s December book reviews and come back tomorrow’s food product round up. Pinny Girls is a new brand selling aprons and oven gloves that are beautiful enough to make you consider keeping them in a wardrobe. […]
December book reviews
Can it really be mid December already? I’m not sure where this year has gone but suffice to say I’ve been so busy with freelance projects and finally launching my redesigned site that it’s as good a time as any for a sweep up of the various books, products and homewares that have crept into […]
