The Enfused Bouche

This unusual yet simple recipe requires the use of a slow cooker. A good slow cooker is considered to be much more energy efficient than using an stove or oven. You can buy sea kale from good grocers, or if you are near the coast you can go foraging for your own! Serves 4 Ingredients … Continue reading →

The first of four low carbon recipes we will posting by Arthur Potts Dawson who has teamed up with Good Energy to promote low carbon cooking. This fantastic, fresh recipe is full of flavour and also gives you the chance to get out there and get foraging for your dandelion leaves! Serves 4  Ingredients 100g … Continue reading →

Happy Sunday everyone! It’s raining. Again. So time for some serious blogging. A while ago we posted about the importance of low meat, sustainable and low carbon diets. Up until now something we hadn’t really considered in any great detail is low carbon cooking. We are really lucky to have got our hands on some … Continue reading →

We always start with these when we go to a Vietnamese restaurant and they are always divine – refreshing and tasty. Vietnamese Summer Rolls are also the easiest thing in the world to make. We are off to Vietnam in November and amongst many other things we are very excited about the food! We decided to make … Continue reading →

Two things happened by happy coincidence to bring about the creation of this soup. Tora’s boss who has recently set up a boutique hotel in Symi, Greece normally brings back chocolate after a visit. Not this time! He bought everyone some Greek saffron – a bit random but gratefully received! We also had half of … Continue reading →

This is the easiest and most delicious breakfast. It’s super healthy too. Big thanks to our great friends Jeff and Hannah for tipping us off on the concept of this breakfast delight. If you scour the internet you’ll find loads of different recipes for Bircher Muesli. Maybe that is what makes it so great – you really … Continue reading →

Greetings people! Apologies for the extreme lack of posting this year. We both started new jobs/roles and things have been pretty busy. Fear not though, this doesn’t mean there hasn’t been time for much food related fun. Just no time to blog about it. In fact we’ve been busy getting to know vegetables in a … Continue reading →

Last weekend we had some friends over for lunch on Sunday and we made amazing roast lamb with spiced roast parsnips and carrots with crispy roast potatoes – a recipe from the Modern Pantry cook book. We got this book for Christmas and it’s full of really interesting and clever recipes full of exciting flavour … Continue reading →

This makes a hearty supper or an indulgent lunch, for best results use naturally smoked fish (not the bright yellow fake stuff) and try to use sustainable fish please folks! Ingredients 250g smoked fish 8 new potatoes – 1cm cubes 1 leek – sliced thin 1 shallot – finely chopped 1 cauliflower cut into florets 50g butter Half pint … Continue reading →

This is probably the easiest and tastiest quick lunch we have ever made.  You can make it under 10 mins! No excuses for by buying an over priced, overly calorific and tasteless sandwich from Pret now people! Dressing 100g peanut butter 3tbs soy sauce Juice of 2 limes 1tbsp sweet chilli sauce 1tbsp oyster sauce 3tbsp sesame oil 2tbsp garlic … Continue reading →

After the meat overload that is Christmas you might feel inclined to treat yourself to some veggies. In fact the EB will be having a distinctly veggie flavour for the next few months, but more about that soon. This is nice easy roasted veg couscous that should feed 2 people for about 4 lunches. Ingredients 500g Couscous 1 … Continue reading →

Whilst at Masterchef Live the other week, we couldn’t resist buying some cracking spice mixes from Adesso Foods and their Baharat mix is fantastic for this simple and tasty lunch. If you don’t have this spice mix we’ve included a cheat! Ingredients Kofta Burgers: 1kg Lamb Mince 5 tsp Baharat Spice Mix or – 1 tsp … Continue reading →

Ingredients 25 heads of Garlic 2 ltr Olive Oil 5 sprigs of Rosemary (you could use Thyme or Sage) Essential Kit Roasting tray Aluminium foil Seal-able Glass Jar 2 ltr’s worth of bottles with lids Muslin Method Lay the garlic heads flat on a board and slice in half (knife parallel to the board). Lay them in a roasting tray as … Continue reading →

We had some aubergines sitting in the fridge heading southwards, and after a bit of research came up with this recipe. We haven’t included a picture of the soup, its not the most appetizing colour, but it tastes great. Honest! Ingredients 1 Large Onion – roughly chopped 3 Aubergines – cubed 4 tsp Cumin Seeds 1 tsp Chili Flakes … Continue reading →

When walking by Season Kitchen  we have always been intrigued by the pavement outside adorned with tempting snippets of the menu etched in chalk. Strangely though we have never actually seen anyone drawing on the pavement… Season Kitchen seems perhaps a little out of place on this pretty shabby end of Stroud Green Road, and … Continue reading →

This is an adaptation from a number of recipes and makes a simple hot or cold lunch. Ingredients 2 Lamb Steaks – leave out for vegetarians 2 Courgettes 1 Butternut Squash 1 200g block Feta Cheese crumbled 1 Can Chick Peas 1/2 Bunch Mint Chopped Olive Oil 1 Red Chili finely chopped Juice of 1 Lemon 500g … Continue reading →

Orange pumpkins are great for carving but aren’t really up to much for eating. We prefer to use the large dark green (pictured) or knobbly pumpkins you find in any good grocers (you could also use squash). I have included pandam leaves in the recipe which grow wild all over Sri Lanka. Whilst we were … Continue reading →

I hold Wahaca singularly responsible for changing my desire to pay money for Mexican food in a restaurant (outside of Mexico). I mean that in a totally positive way. I love everything about Wahaca and I love their food.  Having had numerous experiences of Tex Mex style ‘food’ smothered in gloopy, sticky sauce that is … Continue reading →

Frank’s is my favourite place in Norwich to stop for lunch, a hot chocolate, piece of cake or a drink in the evening. Period. Around five years ago a wave of renaissance hit Norwich. Really good independent cafés and restaurants started popping up and Frank’s Bar came on that wave. Intimate, cosy and quirky are … Continue reading →

Eating seasonally is something we believe everyone should strive to do. Apart from tasting better and being fresher, here are other reasons why. Your wallet will remain heavier , especially when the supermarkets over buy and the general public under buy and you can pick up a punnet of plums for 25p! Help support the … Continue reading →

We visited the Happy Kitchen last Sunday and what a happy place it is. It was a bigger space than we expected, light and airy. There is a real warm and earthy feel about the place. There was a frenzy of activity when we stepped through the door under the railway arch (their busiest Sunday since opening 10 weeks … Continue reading →

Squashes of all kinds are in season at the moment so it’s a great time to stock up as they can be kept all winter if kept whole and in a cool, dry place.  We love butternut squash which is usually fairly pricey but they go down slightly in price this time of year. Stuffed squash of … Continue reading →

This is one of the easiest soups to make, one of our favorites and super healthy to boot. If like my family you have gammon on Christmas Eve, you can use the stock you boil the meat in and give yourself a break from turkey! Ingredients 800g Gammon Joint 2 large onions 1 carrot 6 … Continue reading →

Once upon a time James worked as a chef at RSJ restaurant in Waterloo, London and his one comes courtesy of George who has continually churned out quality deserts at RSJ for longer than he would like me to mention. Ingredients: 1125ml Water 125g Cocoa (sifted) 200g Chocolate – min 50% cocoa solids (chopped) 375g Caster Sugar 2 tsp … Continue reading →

And how true that is. But first a brief introduction to our introduction to the awesomeness that is Pizzeria Pappagone. We have lived just off Stroud Green Road in N4 just shy of a year now. Moving day was accompanied by heavy slow and sheet ice on the pathway from road to door. It wasn’t … Continue reading →