I turned my mum’s christmas risotto (smoked salmon and whisky) into air fryer arancini. This worked quite well (but let’s be honest, it’s never as good as if it were deep fried).
My sister styled this Christmassy!
Food
Christmas biscuit recipes
I've had a spate of biscuit baking with my granddaughter. Not American style biscuits mind, which are closer to scones, but British biscuits, as in the twice baked etymology of the word, meaning they ...
Cheap eats in London
This will be a constantly evolving post, a series. I'm always looking for cheap restaurants in London. Here are a few recent places I've visited. Jincheng Alley - Sichuan This place is between ...
Blueberry galette recipe
Hasn't this summer been wonderful? Lots of sun and rain and my garden just loves it. Everything is blooming: sour cherries, blackcurrants, mulberries and blueberries. Last summer, every evening ...
High protein recipes: roast tofu block
I have an Aga oven which is on all the time so I'm motivated to make oven-based recipes. The rule with an Aga is to cook 20% on top, and 80% in the ovens. Last week I made an easy high protein ...
Travel
The future of farming
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 ...
Hungarian poppy seed pastry ‘Kifli’ recipe
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 ...
Hungarian potato and paprika stew (vegetarian)
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 ...
Recipe: Viennese whirl biscuits
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 ...
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.