Back to Basics Cooking in a Modern Age
I baked a couple of sweet potatoes the other day. I haven’t baked a potato in years! I had one with some homemade meat sauce and it was lovely. But then I didn’t know what to do with the other potato… But here’s what I came up with… a sweet potato tuna scone! I struggle …
First off, this recipe makes pesto for an army. We will be eating pesto for days. Secondly, it’s not actually pesto. I mean, if you define pesto as that lovely mix of basil, pine nuts and parmesan. Because this has none of those things. It’s dairy-free. It’s even pine-nut free and basil free. But I …
I’m doing a bit of a ‘Back to Basics’ month in January, basically, to get rid of December. I’m sure a lot of you understand where I’m coming from. So my meals are all planned for the week and, admittedly, are a little less exciting than normal. But let’s face it – I am going …
Guess what I got for Christmas? A dehydrator!! Have wanted one for a while, but never quite got ’round to it. So far I’ve dehydrated courgettes, cucumber, orange peppers and cherry tomatoes. But today I tried something different. And WOW. So excited about this one…. I used ‘Chou Vert’ which, apparently, is also known as …
This is my best chilli. Well, I think it is. I mean, I make this a lot, but I’ve never really written it down before. I just sorta add things. Sometimes I forget to add things. But I’m pretty sure I managed to get everything in there that I was supposed to. It’s the perfect …
I’ve made pizza type dinners before: flattened pork or chicken covered with marinara sauce and toppings, meatza (a beef or pork base covered with toppings, cauliflower base covered with toppings, and a cheese base. And they’ve all been pretty tasty but not quite pizza-base. This one changes the game though. This was thin and crunchy …
