Author Archives: Kate
The Monday Treat – Birthday baked cheesecake
It was my birthday, and I celebrated as I habitually do by going to Chinatown and eating a lot of duck with pancakes. Then back home for champagne and cheesecake and presents. I had a very happy day!
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Imam Bayildi, the priest wept
Imam bayildi is one of the all time great, most delicious ways to eat aubergine / eggplant.
The name means “the priest wept”, and theories as to why exactly the priest wept abound; possibly he had a young wife whose dowery was mostly paid up in barrels of olive oil. She cooked this dish for him. He loved it. She cooked it again for him. He loved it. She cooked it again, and that was the end of her olive oil dowery. Or possibly the priest cried in sheer pleasure as olive oil dripped down his chin when he took his first mouthful of creamy eggplant, and soft sweet tangle of onions. Continue reading
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Tagged dill, eggplant, Istanbul, lemon, mint, olive oil, onion, parsley, romance, tomato, turkey, vegan, vegetarian
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The Wednesday Tipple – Pomegranate Martini
There’s not a whole lot of romance in the methodist church. Believe me. I was in the youth club.
Roast Sausages with Chianti and Grapes
Back in New York, and back to work, with my new fancy London clothes in my newly re-organized Fall wardrobe. Primark. New Look. BHS. All the really great iconic designers feature.
The Wednesday Tipple – Chianti and Anti Pasto
Back to New York with Jon, who evidently missed me because he’d filled the fridge with skim milk and yogurt, both of which I love, and he can totally live without. Also wine. Lots of wine.
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Tagged anti pasto, artichokes, basil, bread sticks, chainati, mozzarella, parmesan, pesto, ricotta olives, tomatoes
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The Monday Treat – Focaccia with grapes
If you lived in Tuscany last weekend, the chances are you would have been out celebrating the chianti harvest. Apparently there’s a big knees up, with a lot of drinking and eating olives and trampling on grapes in vats. “Seriously,†… Continue reading
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Tagged chainti, fish pedicure, focaccia, grapes, harvest, olive oil
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Salmon with foaming hollandaise sauce
Englishness continues as baby Emily is christened in the Parish Church in front of adoring family, friends and a set of great grandparents.
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Tagged butter, christening, Delia, freedom, hollandiase, salmon, white wine
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The Wednesday Tipple – Autumn Afternoon Tea, Blackberry Scones with Blackberry Jam (and nice cup of tea)
Immersed in Englishness, cup of tea in hand, I pillaged the brambles along the doctors’ fence at the back of my grandparents’ house, and I am now standing by the stove skimming scum from a batch of warm blackberry apple … Continue reading
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Tagged afternoon tea, blackberry, emo scone, jam, scone, tea
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The Monday Treat – Autumn Afternoon Tea Time: Plum Cake
Back in London on the annual pilgrimage to the US Embassy to have my visa re-issued. Back to sleeping in my childhood bedroom, where creeper is already turning red around the windows, and I can watch the birds gathering in the … Continue reading