Gratin dauphinois is such a crowd pleaser. Who doesn’t love sliced potatoes cooked in a creamy sauce and covered in cheese? The dish made very regular visits to our family table whether for a special occasion or for Sunday lunch and so, this is our example of a nostalgic, comforting dish, just like mac and … Continue reading
This is a total revelation (to us). We’re regular porridge eaters and we’ve used all sorts of grains – porridge oats, jumbo oats, steel cut oats, barley flakes, quinoa, rice (technically kheer), broken rice (technically firni) – but for some reason, never bulgur wheat. Bulgur wheat was usually reserved for jareesh or other savoury dishes … Continue reading
Not to sound like a broken record but it has been an endless winter and we’re tired of the gloomy skies and biting winds here in London. Enough already! We want to wear shorts! We want to eat ice cream! We want to laze around in the park with the sunshine warming our skin! Where … Continue reading
It’s officially T-5 days until Chocolate Bunny Day! The shops have been filled with chocolate eggs, bunnies and chicks along with mountains of hot cross buns since January but we’ve managed so far to resist temptation….until this weekend. We finally caved in and bought little bags of Mini Eggs and mini Creme Eggs and well, … Continue reading
We promise this is the last plantain post for a little while – but this was too yummy not to share! Our lovely friend V told us about a more traditional way of cooking plantain that is commonly sold on the streets of Ghana. The dish is called kele wele and it’s freshly deep-fried before being … Continue reading
Oh how we miss Italy! As you might have seen from our pizza post, we recently visited Rome for a weekend to re-acquaint ourselves with Italian culture, the fabulous fashion and architecture…and most importantly, the food! As soon as we booked the flight and hotel, we made a list of food we absolutely had to … Continue reading
Plantain is sort of a new, undiscovered fruit for us. We know that it is a staple fruit for many tropical regions including parts of Africa, the Caribbean and South America, and that depending on its ripeness, it can be eaten in a sweet or savoury dish. Anchal picked some up in Brixton, on a … Continue reading
If you have a grandmother like ours, then pretty much everything you were fed when you were growing up was made from scratch – except for Penguin biscuits of course, our gran let McVities handle those. It did mean that she was up very early, making fresh yoghurt, Indian breads, soaking the dals, a cake … Continue reading
So we’ve just returned from a magical weekend in Rome which has re-ignited our love for pizza and all things carb-related. We usually try to be healthy and exercise some kind of self-restraint, but before we went, we vowed to go to town on Italian food. And we really did. We dined on beautiful pasta, … Continue reading
See this popcorn? This popcorn looks just like normal popcorn – but it’s deadly. Well, deadly in a hot-and-spicy-but-luckily-won’t-actually-kill-you-or-cause-you-any-major-harm-sort-of-way. This isn’t the sweet and innocent popcorn you shovel into your mouth when you watch a lovely rom com with your two favourite stars who act like they can’t stand each other in the beginning but … Continue reading
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