Stuffed vine leaves

These tasty little morsels are great finger food for a party or as part of a mezze platter to graze on over a lazy afternoon or evening. For a dairy-free option serve with a fresh tomato sauce instead of yoghurt.

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Lamb keftès with yoghurt sauce

Here are the lamb keftès or koftas – which marry perfectly with the Greek salad from my previous post. This whole meal makes for a superb picnic – but get in quick if you live in the southern hemisphere because it’s starting to get blimmin’ cold.

Easter doughnuts

While I know some of us may find it hard to comprehend (on some level I struggle to believe this myself!), not everyone is a chocolate fiend.  And while I am all about Easter being a celebration of chocolate in all its wondrous incarnations, there is room on my table (and in my belly) for [...]

Carob truffles

These truffles are completely chocolate free, using the much underrated and underused carob. When I started my quest for an interesting carob recipe, my boyfriend screwed his face up in disgust. After a childhood of carob treats due to an eccentric mother who had a passion for looking after her

Christmas wine soup

As promised, Balint has provided us with two traditional Hungarian Christmas recipes this month; Christmas wine soup and Poppy seed bread pudding (Mákos guba). For those of you who don’t know, Balint is our technical writer and he has shared with us previously his beautiful photographs and story ‘Eating tour of Hungary’.

Spiced banana cakes with hot caramel sauce

For me, the perfect banana cake need not involve chocolate. I feel it needs something more gentle, more loving, more saucy to tenderly wrap it in dreamy deliciousness. Enter hot caramel sauce. Roasting the bananas before using them in these little cakes also lends a delicious caramel flavour—it brings out the natural sweetness in the [...]

Pickled onions

My grandparents were a great team when it came to preserves. Granddad was a skilled and very prolific gardener and Nana could turn anything that wasn’t used fresh into wonderful jams, pickles, chutneys and sauces. This is their recipe for pickled onions, which were made and stored for a couple of months to be brought [...]

Chocolate, cranberry and cinnamon biscuits

I’ll be the first to admit that I have developed an annoying habit.  I blame it on my Mum.  Her health conscious ways have rubbed off on me, spawning little habits and behaviours such as the one in question.  This particular habit sees me performing cosmetic surgery of sorts on recipes whose sugar and fat [...]

Poached pears with mascarpone

Being a fan of puddings, desserts and generally all things treat-like, I love to serve a sweet course to finish a meal. The nice thing about this dessert is that it is sweet without being sickly, and all those who try to refuse dessert because they are ‘just too full’ (wimps!) can be persuaded to [...]