Nice automn dish, with lots of flavour. Ideal for Halloween week. I made them with kabocha squash, but you can really make it with any squash or pumpkin.

The name of this dish sounds complicated, but really it’s very quick and easy and shows off wonderfully the taste of nasturtium pesto. Thanks Joanne for growing them onto our patio!

As my meat-eating family comes into the grilling season, I get creative at finding things I can eat with them coming from the same grill, but skipping the meat. And this one builds on my recent discovery that feta is better hot than cold. I made it grilled, using a metal ‘grilling basket’, supposedly purposed
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My kids wanted a pet. A dog or a cat. I said no. Then they asked for anything else: rabbit, guinea pig, fish. No, no, no. Then I brought a pet home. Sour dough. They were disappointed, to say the least. But sour dough was just as much as I could handle in terms of
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This is a dish I tasted during a work trip to Albania, back in the times when we were all still allowed to travel. In these times of self isolation and staying home, seems like long time ago. It was my first trip to Albania, and I was just amazed with the food. Hopefully, things
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I recently went to Turkey and in Istambul I had this most amazing baba ganoush, although it was called ‘aubergine salad’, I guess in order to explain the unaware tourists what was it’s main ingredient. Since then I am trying to recreate it, and I do manage to have the same taste, but the original
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A lovely soup for a cold evening (and we have plenty of these now…). And vegan (unless you add the cream of course).

Another dinner party for my group of (kinda crazy) friends and yet another invention. It is another take on roasted pepper soup but this time cold and spicy! I was serving the dinner on one of the hottest days of the year (or so I hope that it would not get any hotter this year!),
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This was a great hit during a dinner party I run for some of my closest friends. One of those tasting menu dinner parties, with the names of the dishes given only as a clue. This one was called ‘silence of the lamb’, and I was right, silence fell at the table when the forks
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This simple recipe will make your house smell amazing. Roasted rosemary spreads this Christmas like aroma and tastes surprisingly good and crunchy as well.