Recipe boxes. The chances are you have an opinion on them. For us, we’ve been fairly dismissive of them since we were accosted by an aggressive salesman for one of the countrywide, […]
Versatility and creativity from the Stellar electric family wok
The Stellar Electric Family wok has been brought to market by the clever bods at Stellar, who create a wide range of family-friendly, intuitive products for the busy home cook. The wok […]
Broaden your cooking horizons with Leeds Cookery School
Looking at the options available in Leeds, those who love to eat and love to cook are pretty spoiled for choice. There are cocktail making classes, bread making lessons, and even the […]
Become a Pork Lover: Why Pork Deserves A Place On Your Menu This Autumn
If you’ve been to Leeds Briggate recently, you will have seen a rather spectacular Pork Lovers coach sat in the middle of the street giving info and pretty scrumptious samples of one […]
Not crumbling under pressure with the Judge Table Essentials, 24cm Pie Dish
Having a good pie dish at home is, of course, key for any budding home cook. However, finding a nice one that isn’t just good-looking (after all, we’re all suckers for nice […]
Using your leftovers: Shepherd’s pie with roast lamb
Roast lamb is our favourite Sunday roast but I’m never sure what to do with the left-overs. I love cold roast chicken, gammon, beef and pork but somehow cold roast lamb always […]
Cookbook Review: Junk Food Japan
Junk Food Japan (JFJ as we’ll call it for ease of typing!) is one of those rare cookbooks that looks as good as it reads. Legendary photographer, David Loftus, features photos throughout […]
A taste of Vicenza at home: Duck Ragu
One of our favourite dishes when we stayed in the lovely Italian city of Vicenza was bigoli (a kind of pasta peculiar to the Venetian region) with duck ragu. When we came across […]
Spicing up your prawns “pil pil” style
Continuing on from her recent post, Caroline brings us the sunny taste of Spain… We are on holiday at the moment in the lovely Andalucian town of Nerja and thoroughly enjoying the […]
Treat yourselves to spaghetti alle vongole made al bianco
In our latest post Caroline brings us a wonderful spaghetti alle vongole recipe… One of my favourite dishes is spaghetti with clams or spaghetti alle vongole to give it its correct Italian name. […]