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10 ways with Verjuice
Verjuice or verjus if you like, has loads of uses in the kitchen and it really is a case of the more you use it the more you will. The juice of unripe grapes, verjuice is produced on a small scale in...
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Perfect Baklava
Sometimes in life, and not very often, you get to taste something that is so perfect that the moment stays with you forever and maybe you will never be able to replicate it again. Most recently for me...
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How to Make Vanilla Extract
Making your own vanilla extract is ridiculously easy. It needs just two ingredients – alcohol and vanilla. Generally vanilla extract is made with vodka due to its neutral flavour but it can also be...
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Kampot Pepper Cambodia
One of the culinary highlights on my recent cycling trip of Cambodia was a visit to a pepper farm in Kampot. I must admit that before I visited Kampot I had never bothered to think about variances...
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Umami and Miso Paste
For years I have been making soups that seem to be missing something in their flavour component but it is something hard to define. While the soups are no doubt nourishing unless I add lots of spices...
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Foods You Can Bring into New Zealand
Bringing home some of the delicious flavours of far away shores can be a huge temptation but the fear of having it flung into a bin by NZ MPI staff is a very real deterrent. Here in New Zealand we...
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How to Make Vietnamese Pancakes – Banh Xeo
After a few weeks of travelling Vietname enjoying light and crispy Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Pancakes) stuffed with masses of herbs, salad leaves, sprouts, prawns, crisp dried onions, a dash of fish and...
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Crunchy Fried Barley
Discovering new flavours and textures is always exciting and something I search for when travelling. It did though come as some surprise though to stumble across crisp fried barley in Mexico. Corn...
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Cauliflower is King – Review
The moment Leanne Kitchen tells me that she has been roasting cauliflower since the early 80s she has my respect. At the time I am sure many of were still over cooking our cauli in a pot of boiling...
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Tips, Hints and Substitutes for Thai Cooking
We all love Thai food and on the whole it is easy to make. Having the right ingredients on hand can sometimes trip us up, it is essentially having a well stocked pantry and also knowing what we can...
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