Prosciutto, Courgette, Burrata and Basil Salad

This is happiness in a bowl. This is food to make you smile. This is food custom designed for languid meals, pink wine, easy chat and Indian summers.

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If you have time on your hands for a group therapy session, read on (warning, female content ahead).

There are things that are not in this salad. There are no pulses – strange for me (though you could easily fold through some du puy lentils, or a rinsed tin of lentils for some earthy rubble to stretch the luxury ingredients a little further). There is no quinoa (though …

No Bake Sesame Bars

It’s all about perspective, isn’t it?

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There are some phone calls you never want to get. Some come from people you want to impress, telling you you’ve got the day wrong for the meeting you’ve been angling for (been there). Some come from police stations, telling you they need you to come in- because they can’t tell you what’s happened over the phone (been there). And some come from daycare.

The daycare phone call is never …

OscarsFeast 2016

Here it is, the full menu for OscarsFeast 2016. To be honest, considering what’s happening in the background of this year’s campaigns, I was contemplating putting together a menu of all white food (#oscarssowhite). But each of these dishes called out to me for a different reason. Make a couple of the snacks while you watch the ceremony, or split them pot-luck style and enjoy the full feast. In previous year’s we’ve gone whole hog and made the full feast again for a watching party. This year I think we’ll stick to a truncated menu in honour of my favourite pictures from this year’s crop- Potato Coins with Ketchup Salt …