I love salad. Love it. It is crunchy, and full of veg and super delicious but one of the greatest food travesties of this country is that we put a shred of iceberg lettuce on a plate with half an overchilled cherry tomato and think that THAT is salad and to be honest, if that […]

Do you remember being wee and having things on pedestals that, well, you just wanted? I don’t know if it was because they seemed exciting, or just weren’t things that were everyday in your house, but totally normal items could seem impossibly exciting when you were were small. One of those things, for me, was […]

Funny story about this soup. Well, I mean as funny as a story about soup can get. A long, long time ago in a land far, far away, I had a stall at a festival in town to tout my wares. market stalls are STRESSFUL, especially when you sell food that doesn’t keep. Over the […]

Tomato sauce was, bizarrely, something I didn’t really ever make from fresh tomatoes. I know this makes ZERO sense, although if you are canning homegrown tomatoes you are probably not really in the reader demographic of this blog, so I shall continue. I think it is one of those things that is a hangover from […]