I think it’s pretty safe to say that Rasa is currently my favourite restaurant. I say restaurant – it’s actually a chain of restaurants, but I’ve so far only visited the Charlotte Street branch. Offering authentic southern Indian food inspired by the home cooking of Kerala, Rasa stands out from most other London-based Indian restaurants [...]

I’ve been wanting to preserve lemons for a while. Although they can be used for lots of purposes (added to salads, poked into the skin of roast chicken, as a garnish for fish) my real reason for wanting to make a jar is so that Paul and I can use the lemons in tagines. These [...]

A while back (a quick glance tells me that it was 2009, when Paul was still being referred to as ‘my boyfriend’ on the blog and didn’t even have a name) I wrote a fairly damning post about Café Rouge. I was fed up with the poor quality food and the below par service – [...]

I first came across this fudge when my friend Fie (who is now living in Denmark, and who I miss hugely) made some for our housewarming. It was so delicious that we scoffed it all pretty much straight away. Luckily, she’d also given us a blank recipe book with the fudge recipe written in to [...]

I’m trying my hardest this year to create little hampers of Christmas presents for people. The original plan was to make everything that would go in them, but I’ve since come across some other cute fillers, so now the gifts seem to be a combination of homemade and bought. I hope that people will like [...]

These potatoes don’t have too many flavours fighting for attention – they mostly have a wonderfully subtle taste that comes from the use of Royal Green Coconut Cooking Cream instead of oil or butter. I was sent a pot of the cooking cream to review, and we’ve been using it in all sorts of dishes [...]

I’m ridiculously proud of this (the artichoke, not the image. The image is a particularly poor example of my iPhone camera skills.) Yes, folks – I grew it myself. And contrary to my expectations, it tasted so good that I’m seriously considering moving to the south of France and becoming an artichoke farmer. I wasn’t [...]

I’m going through a hot chocolate phase at the moment. I blame the Cadbury Cocoa House, where I went fairly recently and had white hot chocolate with raspberry, heaped with cream. After that I became unstoppable. My only requirement is that there should be plenty of cream or marshmallows to go with it (after all, [...]

Recently I’ve found myself constantly craving Indian food, so I was a pretty happy bunny when my friend Charlotta suggested that we pay a visit to Covent Garden’s Masala Zone. Part of a chain and yet with its own unique decor and atmosphere, the Covent Garden branch of Masala Zone offers delicious food with a [...]