Recipe: Chocolate “Sheep” Cake
Known more traditionally as Texas Sheet Cake, this recipe is probably the one that reminds me most of home. Until […]
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Recipe: Portuguese Custard Tarts
Flaky on the outside and deliciously soft on the inside, Pastéis de Nata, or Portuguese Custard Tarts, are something I’ve
Recipe: Plum & Poppyseed Muffins from Smitten Kitchen
It’s a few years old now and some of the pages are rippled from stray drips or smeared with chocolate
Recipe: Courgette, Pistachio & Orange Loaf Cake
Whenever I buy a new cookbook, I spend a few hours turning through the pages, reading the stories, admiring the
Recipe: Snowflake Cut-Out Brownie Cookies (with Cream Cheese Frosting)
Sunday was a day for baking, a wet, dreary December day and close enough to Christmas that I could finally
Recipe: Mom’s Pumpkin Pie (& Crust)
Autumn is for piles of colourful leaves, slick wet sidewalks, unpacking jumpers and carving pumpkins. It’s also for delicious comfort
Recipe: Jorge’s Refreshing Summer Gazpacho
The UK has been going through a bit of a heatwave recently, so windows are open, fans are on, summer
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Recipe: Seared Haddock & Gazpacho Salsa with Tomato Vinaigrette
Deb from Smitten Kitchen has included the perfect summer dinner in her cookbook (UK/US) (which is one of my all time
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Recipe: Blueberry Custard Pie
As I write this, there’s a piece of pie next time me, the blueberries, burst from baking, are seeping their purple
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Easter Recipe: Carrot Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Giant orange chocolate cats, searching for hidden baskets full of goodies, an afternoon spent dyeing eggs with complicated patterns before watching the
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Recipe: Mom’s Chicken Noodle Soup with Vegetables
I will always remember the welcoming, warm scent of my mom’s kitchen in New York when she had been cooking her delicious
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Recipe: Rosemary Cheese Scones from The Shed
I love that The Shed (UK/US) – the cookboox by the brothers behind the rustic Notting Hill restaurant of the same name
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Recipe: Dad’s Greek Spinach & Rice
Whenever I go home, I ask my dad to make some of his famous spinach and rice recipe, inspired by
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Recipe: Greek Meatballs with Potatoes
My parents have been travelling to Greece regularly for years now, often choosing to re-visit some of the same villages
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Recipe: Festive Almond Biscotti
The whole flat smells of almonds and oranges – like Christmas! I’ve dug into Deb’s archives full of treasures on
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Recipe: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
I’ve been itching to make something with pumpkin in the run up to Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday that I hven’t
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Recipe: Pimientos Rellenos Con Bacalao
It was date night in at our place on Sunday night. I donned my new apron from Anthropologie (Jorge has
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Recipe: Marina’s Breadfruit Pie from Saint Lucia
“How about I make you some of my breadfruit pie,” Marina suggested while we were deciding what to have for
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Recipe: Chicken, Cheese & Spinach Quesadillas
We were about 13-years-old when one of my best friends, Tara, taught me how to make quesadillas. It’s the first
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Recipe: Scones for Cream Tea
While a full afternoon tea is sometimes a bit overwhelming with so many sandwiches, scones and then sweet desserts on