I love potatoes. In fact, I’ve been known to start singing when I have a plate of hot, freshly cooked potatoes sitting in front of me! And I love them done in almost all possible ways – pommes dauphinois, pommes frites, pommes purée, pommes sarladaise (ooh, especially pommes sarladaise), all of it. My favourite, however, […]
Sadly, the most important meal of the day is also often the most neglected. Because I’m the farthest thing you could find from a “morning person”, I’m rarely in the mood to cook anything that takes longer than 3 minutes to rustle up. In other words, my breakfasts – when they actually manifest as a […]
I have a friend who hates prawns, lobster, crabs, and everything with an exoskeleton. She says they’ve got an “exoskeleton taste”, all the while wrinkling her nose. I think she’s mad – I love that flavour to bits. Prawns, in particular – not just for the taste but also for the ease with which their […]
As someone who has lived all her life in “the tropics” – particularly, Singapore – I’ve never had the chance to experience living in a climate where you feel the weather slowly growing warmer, cooler, wetter, drier, or anything of the sort. Sure, I’ve been to temperate regions before, and played in the snow, but […]
In my previous post, I mentioned that I’m not a fan of tomato based sauces. That’s not entirely accurate. While I don’t really like them as the sauces for my tagliatelle or linguine, I’m quite a big fan of baked dishes that have a nice red or meat sauce in them. Shepherds and cottage pie […]
