Sliced Avocado on Toast Good morning! Time for a new obsessions post. There's no special reason for the avocado picture to open this post; just that ever since my beloved Barham Avocados stopped selling to retail customers it's been super difficult to find perfect avos, and I was so pleased when I cut into this perrrrrfect one that...
Paris, The Eiffel Tower Bonjour! Welcome to my Food Guide to Paris! I've travelled to Paris many times (seven times in the last eight years, for anyone playing along at home), and duly blogged each trip, but it never occurred to me to actually write up my recommendations in the one spot. However, a few weeks ago, a...
Blood orange, sweet potato and quinoa salad. Fluffy quinoa is studded with toasty crunchy almonds and sweet pops of raisins, and served with earthy cubes of roast sweet potato, sharp and fragrant blood orange, and lovely soft green beans. All this deliciousness is brought together with creamy hummus. It's soooo good, and incidentally gluten free, vegan, and full...
Hello hello! If you can't tell, I've been going absolutely nuts for sweet pumpkin recipes lately! I love the bright colour and earthy flavour that pumpkin brings to baked goods, and pumpkin spice just smells so good and comforting. Seeing that Thanksgiving is coming up in exactly two weeks, I thought it was a good time to share...
Pumpkin crème caramel! A smooth and creamy pumpkin custard pudding, topped with a generous river of bittersweet caramel, clouds of whipped cream, and crunchy spiced candied pumpkin seeds. Super luscious and totally decadent. Pumpkin Crème Caramel Jump to recipe And the pumpkin obsession continues... I have finally run out of my stash of tinned pumpkin, and my supermarket...
Exactly one year and three days ago, Sandra and I got married. Our Wedding Day We chose the wedding day to be on our twelfth anniversary of being a couple. I self-deprecatingly joke that it's so I didn't have to remember a new date, but really it was that the date was already special for us and that...