Home Cured Olives As summer draws to a close – somewhere towards the end of September (2019) – the olive harvest begins. This year, to save me from tears, I decided to buy a 5kg sack of olive and prepare them myself. My fresh olive guy in Mercado Central said that if I brined them…
Lemon & thyme chicken with cauliflower rice If you’re looking for more than calories from your meal, then blitz some cauliflower and use that to soak up the flavours. Just try to blitz your cauliflower rice 40 minutes before you plate up and you will be rewarded with maxed out sulforaphane production. This Persian inspired…
Silky green goodness! This is my Green Velvet juice💚 kale 🥬 , celery, 🍋 , raspberries, 🥑 , spinach,🍎 & 🍐 The ⭐️ of this juice is the kale 🥬. When its cells are damaged by chewing (or juicing), the enzyme myrosinase mixes with glucoraphanin to produce sulforaphane – part of the plant’s defence system.…
Thank you Anthony Bourdain! I have Anthony Bourdain to thank for introducing me to açai via his excellent cookbook, Appetites. I’d seen it around – my last restaurant is now an açai bar, but I’d never been tempted. The strange thing is that until Mr Bourdain took his own life, I didn’t even know of…
Borscht ‘n’ no Tears Let me explain. There is a restaurant in London called “Borshcht ‘n’ Tears” where a very good friend of mine used to work when we were at Uni. So for me, borscht is always Borshcht ‘n’ Tears. This version, however, is vegetarian and with only one onion there are no…