Wolf Peach (Tomato) salad
Imagine life without tomatoes - no Bloody Marys, salsa, spaghetti Bolognese, or tomato sauce with your sausage. That’s half of my diet staples taken out right there. It’s hard to believe that only 500 years…
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Watercress salad with mango & sesame
Sometimes in winter I will splurge on a mango. It’s so precious during the cold months that I will consume it in an almost worshiping of way; sucking every piece of flesh from the stone…
Pork & eggplant stack
This is my version of a Parmigina dish. There are few simple processes involved but once on the plate it looks like something from a professional chef’s kitchen.Your dinner party will be impressed…
Miso Chilli Eggplant
It’s become a possibly arrogant and rather familiar path for my recipes to get to my table. While eating a dish at a restaurant or the markets, I often fantasise about ways I could improve it. The ideas will sit in the back of my mind until I stumble upon an ingredient, or rather an [...]
Ham bone minestrone
This take on everyone’s favourite winter classic has so much love and warmth it could melt an icicle. It takes a little longer to make than your commonly found minestrone recipe but is worth the effort. Packed with vegetables, my version of the soup is cooked with ham bone infused stock…
Smoked ocean trout salad
It seems that trout is often overlooked in favour of its better-known cousin, salmon. However, many chefs and we humble cooks really appreciate and at times prefer trout for its more complex and sophisticated flavour…
Apple, blue cheese and wine soup.
Everything happens for a reason and an unfortunate event will often lead to an unexpected positive result or discovery. I was travelling through Spain in 2004 and found myself in rather unpleasant circumstances. The day of leaving Barcelona resulted in…
Canned beets make a good salad
Next time you go through your pantry and find a lonely can of baby beets don’t look away. You only need few more ingredients and you’re on the way to make one of the easiest and tastiest salads ever.
Simple Massaman
This is one of my favourite curries. I have only made it once during a cooking class in Thailand but decided to finally give it a go at home on a cold Sunday night. Although this curry takes about an hour to cook the preparation time is close to nothing. And no, I didn’t making [...]
Crumbed cauliflower with aioli
I bought some cauliflower to use in the curry I was making on the weekend and of course I forgot to add it. Tonight I was looking at my very lonely looking cabbage in the fridge. What am I going to do with you?