Mayonnaise. One of life’s essentials. I love it. My reputation for loving mayonnaise spans seas and continents- I have it on everything. Ketchup, pfft. Don’t bother me with that. Take me to Belgium and slather it on thick.PLUS it’s so…
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Borek are traditional Turkish pastries, cigar shaped and filled with cheese and herbs. The pastry around the outside is crisp and the inside is salty, fresh with herb and soft. I love them served with Tzatziki, a yoghurt dip with…
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Nestled in a cosy nook at the heart of London’s business sector, the City, lurks a shiny new outlet for my baked, roasted, tossed and sandwiched desires. Euphorium Bakery, newly opened this month, wafts bready smells down Threadneedle Street, enticing…
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Granita is a frozen ice dessert – delicate, intensely flavoured flakes of chill, crystalline wonderfulness. It is the ideal dinner party dessert because you can bang it up way in advance and simply serve at the point of desire. This…
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Vermouth. Now there’s a tipple I’ve always wholly disregarded. Something to bang in a martini, something that sits at the back of my parents’ spirit shelf, sticky and collecting dust, something not very nice. And so, when invited to attend…
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Restaurant Story, encamped on a traffic island by London Bridge and the brainchild of Tom Sellers, has just won its first Michelin star after being open a scarce eight months. Alacrity to rival that of Dabbous last year and with similarly youthful a chef. But is…
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This dish of pan fried fillet of sea bream, with tart, creamy lemongrass scented beurre blanc and choi sum makes a delicious main course for any dinner. Beurre blanc is a classic French emulsion sauce made by combining butter (lots…
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