As the summer is in full swing, we’ve been enjoying more and more light meals using fresh produce, olive oil and a lot of lemon. This salad is a great Italian classic, featuring a whole lot of veggies and some crusty bread. These crusty cubes of bread are tossed with tomatoes, cucumbers and red onions […] Read more…
It’s a little difficult to post a brownie recipe thinking it’s going to be the best out there. There are so many recipes and so many variations that I’m not going to pretend this is a novel dessert idea. However, once you’ve found your favourite base recipe (mine are the Baked brownies), the fun is […] Read more…
This post’s aim is to give peas a good name again! Peas are not usually considered a sexy ingredient, an ingredient that you get excited to play around with. But let me tell you, peas really are the perfect vegetables to cook with in the summertime. This pea soup could definitely be enjoyed warm but […] Read more…
If you’ve been somewhere on the East Coast for the past few days I think you’ll agree that’s its been a real scorcher out there! I have as pasty a skin as they make them so these kind of heavy summer days are pretty brutal. What to do to beat the heat? Shy of a […] Read more…
When the weather warms up, I’m usually in the mood for lighter lunches, bursting with colour and flavour that I can make pretty quickly. This was the perfect, perfect summer lunch. It allowed us to inaugurate our BBQ for the season – having been gone for a while, we hadn’t used it this month yet […] Read more…
Today being the first official day of the summer, it only seemed suiting to celebrate with the perfect meal for a warm sunny day. When tomatoes make their way to the farmer’s market and are perfectly ripe and sweet it breaks my heart to overpower them with too many other ingredients or to cook them […] Read more…