It was my birthday last week and I’m lucky enough to have great friends with whom I had a fantastic time. This time I didn’t bake the cake because one of my presents was… the cake!
A bonus to learning languages (see my links to the right) is that there are great people in these courses (and [...]
When Jamie Oliver’s first TV series, The Naked Chef, started on the BBC a few years ago, he could be seen in the opening credits laughing it off: “It’s not me, it’s the food!”
And indeed, that was a very clever concept. For once you’ve learned to do this you can have two (or indeed three) [...]
This is yet another jewel from the truly wonderful Nigella and her super express ideas…
Plus, they’re easy. And tasty. What more could you possibly want? A nice picture? Here it goes!
Gammon steaks with parsley – from Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson
Serves 2
2 teaspoons garlic oil
2 gammon steaks, approx. 200g each
2 x 15 ml tablespoons [...]
Some years ago I became a vegetarian.
That is until I decided to become a chef and realised that by being both a veggie and a chef I would be a walking contradiction. Therefore I became more open-minded towards the whole thing.
This doesn’t mean I am addicted to red meat, with the possible exception of [...]
There are few things that can trigger your memory or nostalgia as effectively as food.
One of them is going back to the places you went to in your childhood.
A few months ago, I went to Miramar, a coastal city south of Buenos Aires where I spent all my childhood summers.
I was over the [...]
Just when we thought we were going to have another snow-less year, here it came, right together with spring.
I remember the year I moved to London, I came in February and the day before my birthday (17th April for the record) surprised me with a snowfall and the biggest snowflakes I’d ever seen.
So here [...]
