It’s Alphonso Mango season, and I’ve been given a box of these beautiful fruits. Forget your usual, green or red-skinned supermarket mangos – Alphonsos are in a league of their own. Sweet, juicy and full of flavour, they are exported from Western India in boxes of four, five or six, all nestled in straw or [...]
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Cooking With Lemon Balm
Last summer I wrote about my discovery of lemon balm in our garden, and how I used it to make lemon balm pesto as an accompaniment for salmon. I was quite pleased with the results, and yet somehow forgot about the lemon balm and didn’t experiment any further until yesterday, almost a year on. Since [...]
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If you’re anything like me, trying to buy wine that you like is a bit of a guessing game. Short of sticking to bottles that you already know, heading to a wine shop or the wine aisle of a supermarket involves a great deal of choosing between countries, grape blends and top notes, without having [...]
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For Paul’s birthday this year, I wanted to find a present that was a bit different. I didn’t give him a t-shirt, DVD, or socks (although one of my Christmas presents was a pack of socks, so I should probably have got him back for that). Instead, I bought him a copy of the River [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Friday Food Find: Pineberries
Ok, I actually found these yesterday, but I like the alliteration and the post is going live today and I expect you’re probably all grown up enough to deal with it. I picked these funny little fruits up in Waitrose in John Lewis Oxford Street. I’d never come across them before, and was pretty intrigued. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Balti Marinated Venison Steak
Attempt to make balti paste look more interesting by using Hipstamatic I’ll be upfront and say that this is more of a serving suggestion than a real recipe. It’s also very much a lazy person’s dinner idea, as it involves ready made balti paste from a jar. Purists, look away now. In the past, Paul [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A Guide To Going Gluten-Free
Although I’ve been eating a gluten-free diet for almost seven months now, I can’t pretend that I’m an expert. As with my foray into the world of ethical fashion, I’m very much still at the stage of reading, learning and working things out. I still accidentally buy products, only to get them home and realise [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Bacon And Egg Martini At The London Cocktail Club
Last night, we headed over to the Shaftesbury Avenue branch of the London Cocktail Club to celebrate the engagement of friends Leanne and Bear. The bar couldn’t have been better suited to their fun personalities, with a kitsch, retro feel, tattoo prints on the walls (tattoos seem to be a theme on this blog at [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Ranoush, High Street Kensington
Last night, Paul and I found ourselves wandering along High Street Kensington, looking for somewhere to grab something to eat. I had been at the glamourous launch of the new Kensington Tatiana Hair Extensions salon (write up to appear soon on This Little Lady Went to London), and Paul had been at Whole Foods, purchasing [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Daydreaming: Rasa Gurukul Cooking School
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 [...]
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