If you travel to South East Asia you will see people eating pho everywhere you go. It is street food at its best.
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Buttermilk and almond plum cake with a warm honey glaze
I have been looking for a plum and almond cake recipe since I went to Tasmania in 2006 and my friend Marion made such a good one it has been haunting me ever since. Each summer when the plums are about to fall from the trees I reminisce and vaguely look for a recipe that hits the spot.
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Elderberry syrup
This is the time of year when anyone can forage for lovely food. Take the kids roaming along riverbanks and through the woods. It is the time for them to learn what they can and can't eat from the hedgerows. This is the time of year when anyone can forage for lovely food. Take the kids roaming along riverbanks and through the woods. It is the time for them to learn what they can and can't eat from the hedgerows.
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Baked cinnamon plums with Mascarpone on walnut toast
"That looks yummy" my three year old niece, Anneka, proclaimed as she sat on my lap as I tried to check my email. She was looking at this photo which I have used as a screen saver. I loved the colours and the way the light was falling on the juice as it dribbled into the Mascarpone cheese. I was rather taken aback she thought it looked good.
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Toast is back on the menu
Jay Raynor, one of the UK's most revered restaurant critics confesses to adoring his toast burnt with a smear of butter and a smattering of Marmite. ‘Toast’ is the title of Nigel Slater’s award-winning biography of a childhood remembered through food and Toast House is the name of my favourite cafe in my home town of Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
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