Having a home-cooked meal with your family is always a special occasion. For Charlotte and me, it happens less frequently than we would both like due to the M1 separating us and […]
A family Sunday roast: Hard to beat
Sophisticated & Seasonal: An elderflower evening at Crafthouse
As a Leeds food blogger, I’m lucky enough to be invited to a fair few food-related events, but some of these succeed only in whetting my appetite, leaving me wanting more food […]
Top five picnic spots in Edinburgh
Caroline reveals her favourite picnic spots in and around Edinburgh… As a born and bred Scot I have to disagree with Charlotte’s comment that picnics in Edinburgh are best eaten in your accommodation! […]
Easy meatballs recipe: how to achieve Italian perfection in your own kitchen!
Last Friday evening, I took Kyle on in a particularly fierce game of table tennis. Midway through the ping-pong war, we decided to raise the stakes by putting something on the outcome […]
Bringing sunny Spain to rainy England: Cooking Keith Floyd’s paella
Caroline loves a paella and just because she’s not in Spain doesn’t mean she has to be denied her favourite dish… There are all sorts of paella, some containing just fish and […]
Auntie Jen’s Lemon Mousse: A family recipe for the ages
Caroline adapts an old family favourite… In my family, as far as desserts go, you are either in the chocolate or the lemon camp. As the lemon lovers are coming tonight and […]
Putting the shortcuts into Millionaire’s Shortbread
Sometimes when you’re baking, you want to do everything from scratch. I know that Kyle likes recipes that take a lot of time and demand a lot of care, but sometimes, I […]
Recreating Grandmother Sardara’s chicken curry
Caroline describes a recipe she caught at the gym a few years ago and wonders what “punning” a chicken involves… A few years ago I was on the treadmill at the gym […]
Recreating Yellow River Cafe’s Massaman curry
Caroline sings the praises of her husband’s Massaman curry. One of my favourite Thai dishes is Massaman curry and in the years since Guildford’s Yellow River Cafe closed down I have been […]
BBC Good Food spring show 2015 in Harrogate: A foodie’s review
When Charlotte and I decided to book tickets for the BBC Good Food spring show, we weren’t 100% sure what we would end up doing, and were a little cynical as to […]