This is one of our all-time favourite suppers: quick, simple and healthy but a bit special, it’s a perfect storm of sustainable meat, soft-yolked egg and savoury Asian flavours. It’s really easy to make, and all the ingredients can be found in a big supermarket. I’m excited to eat it again soon. Serves 2 Ingredients…
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Sweet potato and mackerel bites
Mackerel is one of those relatively strong flavours that I’m surprised how readily babies and small children take to – mackerel pate has been a favourite food of my daughter’s since she weaned. She’s always been a fan of various versions of these, but they’re definitely not ‘just’ for children; they make just as good a…
Real Bread: Chorleywood, sourdough, intolerance, flavour and health
In July 2011, a loaf of ‘factory bread’ was carried across the common of Chorleywood, a picturesque village on the outskirts of London, to the Beaumont House Care Home to be settled into retirement. The stunt was part of the annual Chorleywood Village Day, and intended to symbolise the sun setting on the additive-laden, time-and-nutrient-poor supermarket…
Why bother cooking?
“Food preferences are learnt behaviour. Frequent, positive exposure to healthy food and consistently eating less sugar changes our sense of sweetness. Ditto salt.” Bee Wilson, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat, 2015 Eighty per cent of processed food has sugar added to it, including some surprising offenders: one of the high-street chain Eat’s soups, for…
The Easiest Way: To keep to government drinking guidelines
In January 2016, the government came out with the nerve-jangling announcement that there is no such thing as a ‘safe drinking level’ – any amount of alcohol can increase the chance of developing cancer. Terrifying though this thought might be, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we should all become teetotal – study after study has…
Time to Cook 