Today we’re going Italian with a great homemade spaghetti bolognese recipe paired with a lovely bottle of Carvinea Organic Primitivo wine. First, about the Primitivo. This is the sort of wine that elicits gasps of joy with every sip. With vines grown around the small town of Carovigno in the north of the Salento winemaking […]
Meat recipes
Vietnamese Beef Salad – From the Ultimate Barbecue Bundle
How I love a barbecue – or a braai as its known from where I come from. As soon as there’s a glimmer of summer in the sky I’m ready to wipe everything down and get out there, hoping for sunny days and plenty of alfresco eating. And I like to be inventive on my […]
Cooking with Parma Ham and Clodagh McKenna
So today we’ve been out of Lockdown 2 for a week. I’ve loved going out for lunch and doing a bit of Christmas shopping. I have avoided busy shops (crowds freak me out these days) and am keeping to the rules. Sadly not everyone is doing the same, with huge crowds in Regent Street and […]
Recipe: Spicy lamb and chickpea soup
Today I’m back in the kitchen creating a spicy lamb and chickpea soup. More one-pot cooking just for you. I’m always inspired by the fresh ingredients I encounter on my travels and I’ve recently got back from another lovely visit to the Murcia region of Spain. There’s a fabulous market in the fishing village of […]
Recipe: Slow-roasted lamb shanks
Slow-roasted lamb shanks I have friends that just can’t get that I actually find cooking a lot of fun. It’s creative, relaxing and extremely satisfying when you produce something that everyone loves. I recently spent a day with my 10-year-old niece Kelly cooking dinner for the family and will always remember her smiling face as […]
Recipe: Summery chicken casserole
Okay, so the not-so-good British summer limps along with odd sunshine appearances making us briefly happy before plunging us back into the inevitable rain and grey-sky-punctuated days of July. So while I’d love to be lounging in my garden with the barbecue sizzling, practical considerations (barbecues aren’t so much fun when it’s raining) mean that my […]