Coffee, cake and bits of scorched skin
A Sunday morning espresso at The Dish It’s been six weeks since The Dish and The Spoon opened in Nunhead. Six weeks of panicked scone baking, exhausted espresso mainlining, sweary finger slicing and...
View ArticleChocolate, raspberry and French pastry pudding
Chocolate, raspberry and French pastry pudding ready for the oven Necessity is not simply the po-faced, thrift-obsessed mother of invention. She’s also the saucily winking, good-time godmother of...
View ArticleEating chicken in the garden
Garlic and chilli chicken thighs Due to the unique way the London rental market works (my landlord is putting the rent up), I have to move house. Which means that between now and the end of the month...
View ArticleCauliflower cheese
Cauliflower cheese is ready for its close up A reason to be pleased about the change in seasons, apart from all the leaves that need kicking and the hot chocolate that needs drinking, is cheese sauce....
View ArticleSpeculaas men
Speculaas men Of all the vices that spatter my soul, like toothpaste across a mirror, buying secondhand cookbooks is the one I find the hardest to give up. It might not seem that terrible a habit to...
View ArticleThe Band of Bakers in delicious. magazine
This is a great issue of delicious. and you should all buy it Do you like baking? Do you also like Christmas? How about Christmas-related baking – do you like that? You do? Then this month’s issue of...
View ArticleBacon and egg pie revisited
The bacon and egg pie is under attack Back in 2009, when it was all fields and forests around here, I posted a recipe for bacon and egg pie. It was a recipe I used to make every week when I worked in...
View ArticleThe Dish and The Spoon is 6 months old
Cheers The Dish and The Spoon I’m a tiny bit late on this one, so let’s pretend it’s the 6th November. Because on the 6th November The Dish and The Spoon was 6 months old – a momentous occasion that...
View ArticleCrispy cheese pancakes à la Findus
It's the 23rd December and I know exactly what you're thinking: I've got the presents, put up the tree, secretly eaten all the good ones out of the tin of Quality Street and put the sherry in the...
View ArticleCoffee and cake in the desert, The Sahara, Tunisia
Last year I decided to swap London’s drunks for a 100km trek across the Sahara. Strapped into my boots and with a bag of bare essentials slung across a camel, I was going to spend my new year sober..
View ArticleValentine’s Day recipes for Belazu
Goat's cheese and orange salad with balsamic pearls Sound the alarms! The official Most Romantic Day of the Year is nearly upon us and if you have a partner then it’s not yet too late to get them a...
View ArticleBaked Alaskas
Baked Alaska all for me The trouble with having curly hair is that I wake up most mornings looking like a Bichon Frisé that’s licked a socket. I have a halo of brambles that neither comb, mousse or...
View ArticleSour milk, chocolate and ginger cake
There’s something smugly pleasing about turning an inedible lump of food waste that was destined for the bin into a slab of tasty sponge cake. Albeit, only smugly pleasing if I ignore the fact that I...
View ArticlePopcorn, pretzel and M&Ms cake
Popcorn, pretzel and M&Ms cake Some people can decorate cakes. They swirl buttercream, twirl floral wires and fiddle with sugarpaste until what you have before you is not a jam sponge, but a rose...
View ArticleFilming recipes for Grokker and a bonus brunch recipe for Brioche French...
Brioche French toast with strawberries and crème fraîche Brunch is a conundrum of a meal. Essentially a large, late breakfast for lazy gourmands, it still retains a dash of urbane sophistication years...
View ArticleA Siberian Kiss from Mamont Vodka
Siberian Kiss (it's a rule of cocktails that they must have slightly embarrassing names) When I was growing up, my knowledge of cocktails was drawn exclusively from murder mysteries. Dangerous and...
View ArticleThe Affogato Bar, Fenwick, New Bond Street
An affogato before it becomes an affogato. Note the Smarties in the background. Smarties are great In the race to be the sleekest, chicest department store in London, Fenwick’s is the dyspraxic fat...
View ArticleA 3 cheese pizza with a cauliflower crust
This pizza is almost entirely made out of cheese Eating out in London in the 21st century can be summed up in 1 word: burgers. The time of burgers began in 2001, when Gourmet Burger Kitchen opened in...
View ArticleMaking Twinkies for the Band of Bakers
Golden sponge cakes with a creamy filling “And the exciting part is that they have no ingredients that a human can pronounce, so it doesn’t leave you with that heavy ‘food’ feeling in your stomach.”...
View ArticleCoconut and blackcurrant pancakes
Is this the perfect summer breakfast? Possibly. I quite liked it When advertising was invented, it was made for people like me. Suggestible people who respond to a well-placed whisper by turning into...
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