Absurdly simple to make, for taste your molasses will outcompete any store-bought variety by 1000 miles – at a conservative measure
Pomegranite Molasses At Home
Category: food
Baked Beans À La Différence
Inspired by our friends accross the pond the British baked bean is as quintessentially British as the curry – almost. Here’s a version À La Différence
Gluten Free Oat Hot Cakes
I’m not especially gluten intolerant. But I do like to avoid the insulin spike you get from starchy food with a high glycaemic index, essentially flooding your bloodstream with glucose to be inevitably stored as […]
Shiozuke: Salted Cucumber With Kelp
Using salt to preserve food spans millenia. The earliest known records span back to 6000BC in an area around the Nile valley and Mesopotamia known as the fertile cresecent. Japan, however, has turned this process […]
Sour Lacto-Fermented Plums
Our second post on the subject of tsukemono, Japanese pickles, introduces you to the subject of lacto-fermentation. Umeboshi Soured ume plums are an absolute staple in Japan. The small, yellow fruit is part of the […]
Misozuke: Miso Pickled Vegetables
Tsukemono – The Japanese Art Of Pickling An intrinsic part of the Japanese way of eating, tsukemono pickles accompany most major meals. Salted, fermented, vinagered or exposed to a variety of micro-organisms from miso to […]
Roasted Tomato And Garlic Soup With Sautéed Figs
Too late to make it to the supermarket yesterday I woke to just enough milk for coffee and no bread. Oat porridge, then, with rich, thick soya cream for Sunday breakfast: veganly delicious! StillI I […]
Pasta, Caccio E Pepe
I’m not a fan of eating large amounts of pasta on a regular basis. When in Italy, mostly in the north, I’m served pasta in quite modest amounts as a separate course before the main. […]
Sweet Potato, Broad Bean & Feta Tortilla
What distinguishes italian frittata from Spanish tortilla? The distinction is not a culinary but a historical one. The “open-faced” omelette most likely originated in Persia. It travelled to Spain where, with the addition of potatoes […]
Sugar-Free Almond Cookies
These delicate beauties, made with just almond flour, butter, eggs and sugar or stevia are deliciously sweet, light and crisp and contribute a good bit of protein to round off a vegetarian / vegan meal