This is a great appetizer or dish to serve when you are making a tapas style dinner at home. This is a non-recipe recipe: it is so simple...

Just look at those meatballs, Don't you just want to dive in and eat them? A lovely example of the Maillard reaction and sweet, salty and...

These striated eggs add another dimension to ramen but are delicious enough to eat on their own (as L. and I illustrated by scarfing some...

This is a recipe that L. clamors for every few weeks and I oblige as much as I can, though I am a bit bored of it. This recipe has been...

L. has been on my case again about the fact that I tend not to cook dishes a second time. As a fellow foodie, I thought that he...

Blurry photo of really good alternative fries. The roasting removed some of the vegetable's "harsher edges" and the daikon batons...

I doubt that this will be my most popular recipe ever because so many of the ingredients are specialty items. That being said, if you...

These are delicious - crispy and sticky in equal measure, as all proper chicken wings should be. These are so good that the Colonel's...

I used to make these for L. all the time when he was small so they have the nostalgia factor in our house. And they taste good. The...

This was, if I say so myself, an absolutely brilliant munchie. This recipe came about because I wanted the cheesy goodness of nachos but...

I had my doubts about this recipe when I was planning it in my head but (if I say so myself) these tacos were STELLAR. My mother, L. and...

I have made various shapes and spice/cheese/spread variations of these over the past few weeks, so much so that L. has asked if I...

When we lived in London, L. was 3 and we would, on occasion, go to Fortnum and Mason for a special treat lunch. We always had the same...

I had a glut of beautiful mini heirloom tomatoes, which made the tart very pretty and colorful but regular sized, red ones would work...

If there is one thing that I have discovered in California that I will take with me when I go, it is avocado toast and the many...

Today L. got hit in the face by a basketball during gym class. Because America is an unusually litigious country, he was sent home from...

This recipe comes from my Italian Uncle's side of the family. It is a very simple one and yet so delicious that there are never any left....

I love Felicity Cloake's "how to cook the perfect..." series in the Guardian because she does a lot of research (which I then don't have...

I had sweet and spicy bacon in a bar in New York and was instantly hooked. I remembered it when planning a dinner party and had visions...

This is another one of those dips that you can whip up at the last minute for unexpected guests from items that you have in the pantry...

L. loves my socca waffles/blini and I wanted to make something along those lines that was more substantial than canapés. Chickpea flour...

The family next door is Korean-American. My neighbor's mother comes over most afternoons to be with the kids until the parents get home...

I really don't make dessert much for reasons that I have sufficiently rambled on about in this blog. L. went on strike the other day and...

Messy picture notwithstanding, this is one of the few recipes that I return to again and again. I really don't like making desserts and...