It’s Apple Day! Hooraaaaay! If this is the first you’ve heard of it; no biggie. Either try out my 20 minute baked apple recipe below, just go buy an apple (make sure it’s British) – or head over to one of the events going on this weekend. First up, the history bit. Apple Day is an […]
I’ve been messing about with my diet all year. Not because I’m a slave to food fads, but because at Christmas I realised that my energy levels were consistently super low – and that it was most likely to do with the way I was eating. As such, I gave up meat. By the end […]
On Friday I squeezed the very last drops out of my somewhat-big-enough-to-be-mentionable birthday, with a trip to Borough Market for Celia Brooks’ gastrotour. Starting at Hotel Chocolat’s Rabot 1575 (named after the company’s 250-year-old Rabot Estate cocoa plantation in Saint Lucia) we were treated to welcome coffee and a history of the market, alongside some unusual cacao butter […]
I knew you could grow chilli in the UK, first because of Wahaca’s seed packets (because if you couldn’t, why would they give them away in such abundance?!) – and then because my Mum grew some in her garden last year. However, I had NO idea of the sheer number of varieties you could get […]