Pieces from the Pantry .4
Sweetcorn While it is fair to say that lockdown has eased considerably since my last Pieces from the Pantry instalment, that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t still be trying to use the food we already have tucked away in our cupboards. Whether you want to discourage waste or be creative with timeless tinned ingredients here…
Pieces from the Pantry .3
Coconut milk While coconuts grow in hot, humid and sandy climates it is not unusual now to see tins of their luscious creamy milk on the pantry shelves of rainier climes like the UK. Surely coconut milk can be said to be a modern-day store cupboard staple, or at least it is one of mine.…
Pieces from the Pantry .2
Pasta Pantry pasta creations seem to be a big hit at the moment on the social medias so I thought I’d hop onto the trend train and give you my take. While I don’t shun any kind of dried pasta creation, even the humble student staple of pesto pasta or to throw it back even…
Pieces from the Pantry .1
Noodles Welcome to my new series on the blog: Pieces from the Pantry. During lockdown and isolation, it seems more and more of us have been rediscovering, or maybe even discovering for the first time, the kitchen. While there are many reasons for this sudden desire for us all to become culinary maestros (boredom, restaurant…
The benefits of meal planning and prepping
Prep yourself before you wreck yourself. Are you, like me, continually asking the ever-important question: what’s for tea? If so, I may have the solutions to our mind’s constant foody diversion: meal planning and prepping. Meal planning. This process can be defined as deciding what’s for each day’s breakfast, lunch and dinner for the week and…
My mega Mother’s Day Meal
This Mother’s Day, being unable to go to a restaurant because of the virus plaguing the world as we speak, I decided to cook the mega-est Mother’s Day Meal I could think of. And, why not learn some cool new cooking skills along the way? Of course, none of this could have been possible without…
Pimp that pizza for your Friday night dinner
Has your Friday night pizza for dinner become a boring event? Are you tired of the plain old usual pizza toppings? Then look no further than my guide to pimp that pizza. Everybody loves the old Italian reliables of Margherita or pepperoni atop a crisp golden pizza dough base. Or, maybe you are more of…
It’s time to take a stand… for tapas
Classic Spanish tapas has always been a family favourite. With every Lawler birthday celebrated at the now long gone but dearly missed and forever in our hearts La Tasca in the Cardiff Brewery Quarter. We would consistently order so many dishes that they would be brought to our table on a gigantic tray and would…
Cabbage: A redefining of the unloved Christmas vegetable
After the festive holiday season some of us may have some sad leftover vegetables hanging around in the fridge. Cabbage and Brussel sprouts seem to always take up this space in the post-Christmas lunch fridge, never the favourites on the Christmas roast dinner plate. Well, I am here to tell you: no more. These sad…
She’s salty, but not about food
A chance to tell you why the hell I’ve constructed yet another food blog to send into the vast webasphere. Food organises all of our lives; our minds (or at least mine) are consumed by questions of “when will I eat lunch?”, “what do I fancy for dinner?” or “what’s in the fridge”? It is…
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