Mardi Michels 
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know I’m currently walking around 190km along the Camino de Santiago, from Burgos to Léon in Spain. This is the third leg of the Camino that I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to some of the questions people … Read more
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know I’m currently walking around 190km along the Camino de Santiago, from Burgos to Léon in Spain. This is the third leg of the Camino that I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to some of the questions people … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was a variation on old-style macarons (the kind that everyone can make!) – ground nuts, egg whites and sugar. Dorie says: These are among the most elegant cookies I make. They have the looks of a confection you’d find in a Viennese pastry shop; the texture … Read more
This is part of my Summer Reads 2018 series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. Not able to take a trip this summer? I’ve got just the book for you! Jan Wong’s Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China is a perfect book for armchair travellers who … Read more
The recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was a terrine, in theory, made with duck, chicken livers and pork. I made this in the crazy last week of school, knowing we had a dinner for 12 to prepare this past Monday and imagined it would be perfect as the … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi – Baked Alaska – is one I love to eat but which takes a fair bit of organisation to make. I’ve only ever made Baked Alaska once before (when, amusingly, I said I thought I might like to make it again but that was 7 … Read more