Category: 5 ingredients or less
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French recipe: The Perfect French Hot Chocolate
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been polishing my skills at ghosting – the victim in question being this old blog of mine. It turns out to be one of my talents, although not one I’m particularly proud of. I didn’t expect my day job, editing, and my new part-time job as a culinary…
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The 4 Best Healthy School Breakfast Ideas
In the western world, I think it’s fair to say we have not one but two shots at starting off a new year on the right foot. The first falls on January the 1st, when many of us, with mascara down to our chins, are found chomping down a Big Mac. The other is in…
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Cheat’s Ice Cream Sandwich Ideas
Ice cream never struck me as a satisfying dessert – it’s the snack you eat in a cone by the beach, not the exclamation mark to end a meal. (If you disagree, I will see you outside aka the comments section.) But, let me just clarify. The act of squishing said ice cream between two…
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Easy Cherry and Almond Galette
Cherry season in Toulouse is early – one year I missed it entirely as it just kind of creeps in, slips onto supermarket fruit and veg shelves in the dead of night, then before you know it, they’ve been there for weeks coolly filing their nails and concealing yawns. I’m sorry guys, you’re just annoyingly…
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The Ultimate Pigs in Blankets
France is big on the meats, as you are probably aware, and never more so than at Christmas, so I’ve decided to dive into that melee with the ultimate pigs in blankets – it’s time to show those Frenchies what British cuisine is all about. This time a year ago, I was complaining about the…
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The 4 Best Toast Toppings
The easiest snack in the world. It’s a piece of cake, or should I say, toast. And the great thing about this snack is the fact there is such a thing as toast toppings. If there is a snack that can withstand all weathers, it is toast. From Welsh rarebit dripping with cheese in the…
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The 4 Best Pickles
There is something utterly charming about France beyond the bicycles, baguettes and éclairs, and that’s their love of jars. Chickpeas, crème fraiche, and my precious pâtés and rillettes all come in elegant glass jars, and it’s just so rustic and homely scraping crème fraiche out of a jar, why don’t we do it everywhere? Recycling…
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Milk-Roasted Chicken with Garlic & Lemon
I don’t often use the word ‘mouthgasm’ to describe an incredible eating experience, but when I snaffled a wing of this milk-roasted chicken, its skin crisp and golden, interestingly ‘mouthgasm’ was the first word which popped into my mind, quickly followed by the experience itself. Describing a mouthgasm is somewhat obscene, so bear with me…
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Fig and thyme jam
October seems to be the perfect month for me to make jam. Last year I filled some mini jars with bramble jam – mini purely because of the blackberry curse that haunts me – and although that is literally when the tradition started, I would like to it continue. This year it’s time to celebrate…
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Rice Pudding Pancakes
At the beginning of this little hiccup known as Covid, panic descended on the world’s population and people stormed the supermarkets. A natural instinct, sure, although I still can’t understand the toilet roll wipe-out. In the general rush of stockpiling, everyone went mad for tinned goods, just in case we needed to climb into our…