Food
La bomba paella rice
It's been a weird summer weather-wise. I've stayed in the UK, working on my house and garden, painting rusty gates, weeding, and saying things like 'ooh sun's over the yard arm, time for a drink' as ...
No-churn ice cream recipes
Southern Italy is known for ice cream. Last year I visited Calabria, the toe of Italy, where the gelato was sublime. I felt it my culinary duty to eat at least three ice creams a day. My favourite ...
Corn recipes
When I was a child visiting France, I was shocked to see dried-out corn cobs piling up in cages at the edge of fields. The French consider maize to be animal feed. For Native Americans from both ...
The Crucible and Kung fu Noodle
A sheet of rain between the audience and the stage was the first thing we noticed while taking our seats at the opening night of The Crucible at the elegant Gielgud Theatre in June. It was so ...
Travel
Kite Festival in Oxfordshire
This is only the second year of Kite Festival. Festivals struggled during lockdown, some going out of business: you can't run a business that only functions with crowds and contact between people ...
Queens of Kelp, from the Outer Hebrides
White sand, turquoise sea, clear unblemished skies; it's hot enough to warrant sun screen. Where am I? Not the Caribbean, but Scotland. Specifically the Outer Hebrides, the westernmost islands of the ...
The Seafood Shack in Ullapool, Scotland
Ullapool seems impossibly high up in the top left corner of the map of the UK, so it was from there I decided to get the ferry to Stornoway, Lewis. It's a small picturesque harbour, sunny on the day I ...
The Marmalade Awards 2023 at Dalemain House in Cumbria
Readers won't be surprised to hear that I'm more of a Marmite girl than a marmalade lover. But in the hierarchy of sweet spreads, marmalade is probably my favourite, in that it is bitter as well as ...
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.