A couple of weekends ago I had some friends round for a bit of a curry feast.  Apart from loving curries so any excuse really to make them, they’re perfect for cooking up ahead of time which means you’re not stuck in the kitchen while everyone else is having fun in another room without you.  So while choosing which curries to cook was a doddle, trying to find starters that didn’t need a lot of attention on the night was much...

Another retro classic, with the easiest home made Marie Rose sauce.

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....

The first time I had these was in a fantastic wee pub called The Magnum, not far from where I live, that used to serve them as a starter with a sweet Thai chilli dipping sauce that just went amazingly well with the spicy peppery haggis.  I figured they couldn’t be that difficult, so I tried making them myself at New Year for my brother and sister-in-law and the results were none too shabby   Shamefully, I had to youtube “how to roll...

I have an ex-boyfriend to thank for introducing me to this delicious soup, which was more delicious than the ex apparently as after we broke up it was the soup I pined for rather than him!  And his cat, but that’s another story… Unfortunately, I didn’t have the foresight to get a copy of the recipe at the time, but thanks to the internet* I finally found it online last year, hurrah!  And it was every bit as tasty as I...