This split pea and spinach curry is one of the many lentil curry recipes I have collected over the years. Lentil curries are easy and (if you discount soaking time) fairly quick to make and packed full of flavour. They are also extremely cheap to make and freeze…
Celebrate St. Martin’s Day with Roast Goose St. Martin’s Day is a long standing tradition in Hungary marking the end of autumn and the beginning of winter. It also remembers St. Martin of Tours, who tried to avoid becoming Bishop by hiding in a goose pen. But the…
Sertés pörkölt (or diszno pörkölt) is a traditional Hungarian pork stew. It is full of flavour but yet surprisingly has very few ingredients. For this reason it’s very easy to make and so has become a staple meal in our home. Somehow, onions, pork fat and sweet Hungarian…
I stayed in a hotel in the Dolomites in 2014 after a week’s cycling and had an amazing Dolomites vegetable soup. When I asked our lovely host Tiziana, the hotel owner for the recipe, she gave me a very suspicious look! “The recipe?” she asked in a tone…
Mum’s Victoria sponge recipe is the one she used for as long as I can remember. In truth, most Victoria Sponge recipes look suspiciously similar. I suspect it’s the same recipe used by every 1980s British housewife, with only the variations across the country being the filling. Victoria…
Tökfőzelék is Hungarian Stewed Squash with Sour Cream and Dill. It is one of the unique tastes of Hungary. It’s pretty much the only recipe I have found that makes use of the tök, a vegetable grown all over Hungary. It is very similar in size, taste and texture…
If only vegetables were sweet, we’d have no problems getting our kids to eat them, right? Well, roasted carrots and parsnips have their own natural sweetness. Add some honey and mustard and you have the makings of an easy mid-week vegetable based meal that kids will love. For…
Shepherd’s Pie is the ultimate British comfort food. In fact as far as recipes go, it’s about as British as it gets. It’s been a household staple for hundreds of years, and you would be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn’t have fond childhood memories of it.…
This rustic Italian chicken with peppers dish was one of the first proper Italian recipes I ever cooked. It is perfect for late summer or early autumn, when the weather has started to cool off, but not enough for those really autumnal stews and ingredients! If I am…