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Favourite Cheese: Queso Maxorata
Queso Maxorata, a delicious unpasteurized goats’ cheese from the Spanish Canary Islands, is my current favourite cheese to eat with just about everything. This milky tasting cheese has a taste reminiscent of hazelnuts and a subtle spicy herbaciousness due to the goats’ steady diet of wild marjoram. While some goats’ cheeses have a distinct and…
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Crunchy Salad Rolls with Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce
Some people make soup when they want to clean out their crisper drawer, I make salad rolls. I want to stress that unless you make salad rolls regularly in great quantity (a friend referred to his time working as a caterer and confessed that salad rolls still give him nightmares) they are a little bit…
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Slow Cooker Green Chicken Curry
November is when I really begin to crave comfort food at the end of the day, something to eat that is both warm and filling as well as being easy to prepare. I usually run after work and to come in from the rain and darkness to a hot shower and this bright slow cooker…
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Roasted Red Pepper and Burrata Open Faced Sandwich
Burrata is often thought of as a warm weather cheese, something to be enjoyed alongside summer kissed tomatoes, fruity olive oil, and ribbons of deep green basil. In the colder months my favourite way to serve burrata, an Italian cheese so fresh it literally oozes cream, is alongside roasted sweet red peppers and garlic cloves.…
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Pumpkin Steel Cut Oats
If there’s anything I can do to make breakfast more appealing, I’ll do it. It was difficult to learn to love breakfast, I like sleeping late and eating breakfast always seemed like a waste of precious sleeping time. I had to bribe myself out of bed each morning by promising my future morning self a…