Sweet and sour tofu
Serves 2-3. 10 minutes cooking time.
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Cheesy leek tart
Easy, cheesy and really tasty. An ideal weeknight dinner. I went full fancy and chopped up my own potatoes for wedges to accompany, but a bag of McCain’s would do the job, ya know?
Read MoreEverything bagel schmear
Listen, I know I’m supposed to wang on forever about how I discovered this recipe in Brooklyn in ’07. But I have never actually been to New York. I was meant to go, this one time. Hurricane Sandy happened so I went to Paris instead. Anyway, this is a recipe for a delicious cream cheese […]
Read MoreHow I decided to start making dinner for you all again
It was a WILD Friday night here, that week. Wild, let me tell you. I was working lateish and Mr P picked me up from town on the way home from the supermarket. This did mean that: a. I didn’t need to sniff somebody’s armpit on the Glider home b. We had a bootful of […]
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How we (almost) completed our home renovation
I want to type All Of The Words about the fact that today, Tuesday the 2nd of January 2024, Paul the plasterer arrived and started plastering the roof space. Next week, he will come and plaster the hallway, AKA the final room of this house. I have half-written so many posts and stories about this […]
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Saag paneer
I know I’m supposed to tell you that this recipe was etched on to a banana leaf for me by some village elder in the remote backwaters of Kerala, but that would be a lie. It is a curry that I made one evening when dinner needed to be on the table fast. And it […]
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Pumpkin and thyme tart
This tart is a riff of a basic I have been cooking since I started catering; a shamelessly shop-bought pastry case full of vegetables and a quiche like filling. Sometimes there is cheese, sometimes there is spice, there is always delicious. They seem to be popular with the resident toddler, but most importantly of all, […]
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Quick sausage & butter bean stew
Everybody in the world seemed to have an opinion and advice about weaning my tiny baby onto solid food; there was less information out there for this stage, a year on, where that tiny baby is, well, a little less tiny and has actual opinions and things. I mean, it hasn’t really come as a […]
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Lemon & thyme roast chicken
I have learned that a roast chicken is one of Mr P’s love languages. Srsly. Unfortunately I always forget this fact until I actually roast a chicken, and he starts voluntarily doing The Crap Jobs We Both Hate and hanging out washing and all sorts of things. I mean, I could probably use roasting a […]
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