I’m inviting you all to my annual midsummer supper club on June 21st. Usually I have a Scandinavian theme but this year the menu will be inspired by fragrance.
This is a fragrance wheel not dissimilar to Niki Segnit’s The Flavour Thesaurus wheel of flavours. I’ll be matching perfumes and foods.
Dress summery and floral. Dinner in the garden if weather allows.
When you have a broken wrist, cooking becomes very difficult. Even though the cast is now off, I can't lift heavy pans, unscrew jars, chop with any proficiency. I've been making soups, using my ...
The future of farming In Scotland, farming is looking to the future. Farmer William Rose, from Midcoul Farms, Inverness, is a third generation farmer; he is one of two major Scottish producers of ...
I had these at the Budapest Saturday flea market while wandering around the antique and vintage stalls. I liked them so much I wanted to recreate them at home. I do love anything poppy seed - it's ...
I got the bare bones of this recipe from a paprika farmer Agota Hodi, when I visited her farm in Szeged, the border area of Hungary with Romania. Szeged along with Kalocsa area are the traditional ...
Viennese whirls don't come from Austria but from England. However the texture was inspired by the Spritzgebäck biscuit, also in a whirl shape and with a similar dry crumbly almost shortbread ...
I've made several versions of pierogi since visiting Poland in June, one of the best being Felicity Cloake's perfect series. I also asked for advice from my Polish builders and the local Polish shop. ...
This was probably the best thing I ate in Krakow. It ticks all the boxes for me: creamy, sour, potato, soup. I recreated it when I got home, served it at last Saturday's Midsummer supper club and ...
Naples is known for a particular style of pizza, thick around the rim and floppy in the centre. There is even a special method of eating it, where you fold a quarter in half lengthways so that the ...
MsMarmiteLover aka Kerstin Rodgers.
Chef, photographer, author, journalist, blogger. Pioneer of the supperclub movement.
This is my food and travel blog, with recipes, reviews and travel stories. I also stray into politics, feminism, gardening.