This is a bit of a spur of the moment post!  I rustled these up for lunch and thought they looked good enough to snap, and the pics turned out well enough that it would have been sad not to use them.  So here’s a quick and tasty weekend lunch dish, as scoffed by me today I should start by confessing to being a total noodle-head.  I love them in pretty much any shape or sauce I can get my hands on – ramen noodles, chow mein noodles,...

I have a couple of signature dishes, things I’ve been making ever since I learnt to cook and have fed my friends for years.  If I could only pick one though, this would be it.  There’s just something about the rich and silky sauce that just warms my heart (and my tummy!).  And not just the strog that I cook.  My favourite ever strog was from the Hong Kong Football Club away back when I was sulky teenager in the 70′s, and then...

Easter weekend and then my birthday have conspired to throw my posting timetable a little off track… Hoping to resume normal service this Sunday!  In the meantime, feast your eyes on these seriously cute cupcakes that Hubby rustled up to celebrate (or commiserate) me turning another year older Being a savoury tooth rather than sweet, I prefer my cake-age to be of the unfussy variety.  It took me forever to persuade Hubby that a Victoria...

Before I got married this was my go to dish at least twice a week (ok, maybe three times a week… don’t judge me!).  You could be forgiven for thinking it was because it’s so easy to make – I swear it takes longer to clean up afterwards than it takes to make it – and you’d be partly right.  But the fact that it’s insanely tasty and, with the abundance of cherry tomatoes and rocket, really fresh is what...

As an American, I’m a big fan of soups. That said, it’s taken me awhile to come around to the British penchant for putting seemingly every soup they eat through the blender/liquidiser first. It took me even longer to bring Fifi around to loving soup too, but I like to think that I’m winning that battle these days. With that in mind, and with our hint of Spring proving to be a lie, here’s a little something I threw together to ward off the cold....