Hot cross buns

We are days away from a glorious, four-day long bank holiday and how else would you want to spend it than in your kitchen baking things? I mean, realistically, the sun isn’t going to shine, so you may as well get the flour, sugar and butter in [...]

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The remains of a martini at The Savoy

There are some PR invites that are impossible to refuse, and an invitation to go on a martini safari around London’s swisher hotel bars is one of them. Noilly Prat, the vermouth every discerning cocktail shaker has on hand to moisten [...]

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Slow cooked shepherd’s pie photographed by Stuart Ovenden

The dark arts of food styling are much whispered about. It’s often assumed that magazines deploy most of B&Q to get their meals looking as scrumptious as they do. The chicken is varnished, the lasagne is blow-torched and the steam [...]

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Granola with poached forced rhubarb

Last Sunday I had people round for brunch. It’s a modern, trendy thing to do. I think. Keeping
up with the kids is quite hard these days, especially since my bad back manifested itself and I went
a bit deaf.

Anyway, I have [...]

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Chocolate beetroot cake

Poor beetroot. It does all it can to make itself loveable. It comes in a variety of pretty pinks and purples, it’s full of all those vitamins and minerals we know we should eat more of, and it’s amenable to being eaten raw, cooked or however you [...]

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Cauliflower and chorizo soup

I bloody love soup. I worried that starting off my new blog with a post about soup might be a bit boring. Who gets excited about soup? I don’t, and soup is one of my favourite things. Meat, vegetable, fish, [...]

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Slider cakes

I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but some food bloggers are very keen on burgers. Very keen indeed. So when they have a birthday, there is only one possible cake that can be baked for them: a burger cake.

Originally I’d planned on doing a giant burger [...]

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Malouf: The Cookbook

Australian chef Greg Malouf’s new cookbook Malouf, written with his ex-wife and food writer Lucy, was delivered to my office by a courier who must’ve cursed the day that the Maloufs decided to put together a really comprehensive collection of their favourite Middle Eastern [...]

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Pink pickled onions

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Pink pickled onions

Hello Magazine isn’t usually my first stop for recipes, especially for something as rustic and proletarian as pickled onions. But, having decided that my house would benefit enormously from smelling like a used chip wrapper for a few days, I idly googled ‘pickled onions’ and this recipe for [...]

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Sloane’s Premium Dry Gin

Once again the Gin Fairy has come calling and this time she has bought me a stylish bottle of Sloane’s Premium Dry Gin. So stylish is the bottle that I’ve begun to reconsider my usual habit of sneaking around Nunhead, depositing empties in my neighbour’s recycling bins. [...]

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