The lone gourmet

Flammekueche, street food from Alsace, is probably best described as a Franco-German pizza. You won't find any tomato sauce on it, or ol...

I absolutely love making this Portuguese classic of cabbage, potatoes and spicy sausage - it's a really simple but very nourishing soup ...

Rabbit was something I ate regularly during my sojourn abroad - it was fairly easy to find on the butchers' slabs in the Parisian market...

I call this 3B pasta and it's really easy to make although it does use three pans. I think it's worth it, though, as the flavours go...

No recipe today, but some food for thought. Yesterday evening, I took part in an event called Dining in the Dark here in Manchester. Along...

Soups are currently top of my menu as the weather gets chillier and I crave something substantial, warming and comforting. Soup generally ti...

Own up - who doesn't love pie? I do. I was invited to a pie-tasting event the other week. I hadn't eaten pie of any sort for some ti...

The #foodiepenpals “club” never ceases to thrill, surprise and amaze me – although I cook for one day to day, food for me is also about sha...

I have a very lazy relationship with curry. I either go out to eat it, or I order in a takeaway - both on the basis that it'll be far su...

Orzo is a kind of pasta that looks like tiny grains of rice - it's often used to bulk out soups (it works well in minestrone, for examp...