My first harvest! Rocket and goat cheese

My first harvest! Rocket and goat cheese

Today was an exciting first for me.  As you may have read in earlier posts, I have taken to gardening over recent months.  Well folks, today was the first time I harvested and ate something I had grown myself (aside from herbs…I’m talking things you 

Socca

Socca

My adventures with chickpea flour began in Binn Inn, one of my favourite retail locations.  It’s the perfect combination of thrifty spending and food shopping that leave me positively glowing with pleasure and virtue. On this particular occasion, my sister and I had made a 

What to do with parsley?

What to do with parsley?

I have recently taken up gardening.  That is a sentence I never thought I would write.  Yet, here we are, and so far I am enjoying it immensely. My Italian flat-leaf parsley in particular is going great guns.  The picture above may not look as 

Asian noodle soup

Asian noodle soup

Gingery, salty, savoury and good; this Asian noodle soup recipe is something I muddled around with when I lived in London and frequently found myself in need of something comforting to protect against the long dark wintery nights.  This warm, spicy noodle soup is the 

Fresh fish and frugal tortillas

Fresh fish and frugal tortillas

In the hilly little town where I live, we are very lucky to have a fresh food market by the waterfront every Sunday morning.  And one of the highlights of this market is the fresh fish boat.  It parks up on a jetty near the