This is a dish to bring young and old together to indulge in a bit of  immature slurping of spaghetti strings, and splashing of tomato sauce on shirts, white tablecloths, pets, etc. I’ve witnessed grown men and women go loopy about meatballs, singing silly songs about them rolling out of the door. I myself am […]

My polenta will (at least temporarily) satisfy a yearning for Moroccan food-stuffed holidays long frustrated by poorness or a mortal fear of bed bugs. I whipped up this dish last night after “going shopping” in my over-stuffed fridge (one of the perks of writing a food blog). I’d been to lunch at Fratelli with a […]

Brimming lustily with meaty goodness, this ragù is the mogul of slow-cooking. It will both sate the ravenous winter maw and stock your freezer for lackadaisical days. This ragù makes an excellent clandestine meat-break from my vegetarian household, so keeping a constant supply of it is part of my religion. When my freezer stocks start running […]

Are the Italians forever over-imbibing? Because they sure know how to spirit away the booze fuggery with their dark culinary arts. This dish, dear readers, is one hell of a hangover cure. I went out with my lady friends on Thursday night and predictably drank and ate too much. Friday was a hard, hung over […]

Full of vitamin B and omega-3, the state fish of Alaska provides curative respite from the stresses of daily life. Consuming the good fats of salmon is said to guard against Alzheimer’s, colon cancer and heart disease. Save the pasta, this dish is what Nigella might call ‘temple food’. It soothes the soul and fills […]

For pasta purists this dish is pure magic.  Here clean, clear flavours compliment rather than hide the egg and flour melange of pasta. The Italian flag tricolour of parsley, chilli and garlic makes this dish feel  intensely homely and nostalgic. It’s this sort of cooking that really showcases why oil and lemon work so well […]