secondhelping

  What is it about slow cooked meals that is so synonymous with comfort?  I love a dish that simmers away, slowly releasing its layers of flavours whilst wafting amazing aromas throughout the house to remind you what is in store later.  This veal and porcini sauce recipe calls for not one but two bottles [...]

  There may be only a few days left,  but it still feels very much like summer at the moment.  Some of the things I like most about the seasons are the scents and aromas I associate with each of them.  In summer a favourite smell of mine is basil.  Basil is truly an incredible [...]

With so much focus by food writers,  be they bloggers or journalists,  on the latest food trends we tend to hear a lot about the  “it”  cuisines and restaurants.   In case you were wondering,  Mexican was the flavour of the month,  but it is now giving way to a slow but steadily growing love affair [...]