20 Jun Sea spinach
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Have you ever tried sea spinach?It's sharper than normal spinach and makes a great salad. You can also braise it and eat it with butter. Buy it from your fishmonger...
17 Jun Food in Belgrade
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Ah, Belgrade. If you're not aware as yet, I have totally fallen in love with the place. It's beautiful, interesting and romantic, what else do you need? Actually, there's also chemistry, and Belgrade definitely has that in spades - an energy that can't really be...
13 Jun The new detox rules
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If you are looking for a detox where an Absinthe cocktail on the second day is allowed and you don't need to spend two weeks miserably brewing herbal infusions while your friends go out and have fun, then you've come to the right blog. My...
12 Jun Butter beans with majoram and tomato aka “Brittany-style beans”
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I have just returned from a short stay in Belgrade, which I will tell you all about as soon as I've had a moment to digest it all. It's one of those places that stays with you, and despite the short amount of time I...
04 Jun Polish-style pancakes with sweet cheese
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My parents have decided to sell the house in Eastbourne. We knew it was coming, as they've been talking about it for a long time. When our Dreszcz was alive (that's our beautiful boxer dog), they said they were keeping it for his sake and...
30 May Black bean and mango salad with bulgur wheat and quinoa
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London's hot, so I'm all about salads right nowThis is one I found through Pinterest, on sweet sugarbean, and been meaning to make for a while now. Have you discovered Pinterest yet by the way? It's a virtual scrapbook - very coolBut of course, I ended...
27 May A couple of great bruschetta ideas and some stuffed tomatoes
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Some of the best moments in my life so far have been spent cooking with people I love. Whenever I look back on any special occasion from my childhood, it was the moments spent in the kitchen beforehand that were often more fun than the...
19 May Garlicky red amaranth with fermented bean curd
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Today was the day for my monthly Vietnamese shop experiment. Red amaranth I discovered last time. Although this time it was a lot more red when cooked with the same sauce as before, perhaps because I stir-fried it for longer...
17 May Nutty grain and vegetable salad from M&S
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As a rule, I prefer to make my food from scratch. If I didn't, then I probably wouldn't be here (writing my blog, I mean, not as in I wouldn't exist). However, rules always have an exception, right? So after a long day, 3 cakes...
13 May Spicy lentil salad at a long awaited bluebell BBQ
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The bluebells have been out in my garden for about a month now. Every weekend, I've been staring at them longingly through the rain on my window, hoping for a few hours of sunshine, so I can get my BBQ out. Today, finally, it happened....