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October 22, 2018

Out with the old, in with the new

Hello! I’ve had this little blog since 2011, where it started off as a space for me to share recipes and write food features. Over the last few years, life got somewhat busy and this little corner of the internet got rather dusty, with only a handful of posts over the last couple of years. Oops. My life has changed...

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July 19, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day five

On to my final day on the Leiths one week intermediate cooking course! On Friday we made tarte tatin, followed by monkfish and hollandaise. The demo was about dinner party cooking, and we watched our chef make two three course dinners compromising of tartlets, halibut, and panna cotta; and haloumi salad, harissa lamb, and roasted figs. I’ve made tarte tatin...

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July 18, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day four

This is a round up of Thursday 11th July on the white intermediate course at Leiths School of Food and Wine. Thursday was focused on fish preparation and cooking, which is something I didn’t know a huge amount. We also made a meringue cake – the only non fish themed thing of the day! We kicked off in the demo...

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July 17, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day three

So, if you’ve read Friday’s preview, you will know that this week I’m doing a day by day review of my week at Leiths School of Food and Wine. This is the round up of Wednesday 10th July on the white intermediate course. Day three at Leiths was all about pastry, summer rolls, and raisin and hazelnut bread. We started off in the...

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July 16, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day two

So, if you’ve read Friday’s preview, you will know that this week I’m doing a day by day review of my week at Leiths School of Food and Wine. This is the round up of Tuesday 9th on the white intermediate course. Tuesday started off in to the demo room, where we watched two sessions – one on bread and one on meringue....

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July 15, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week – day one

So, if you’ve read Friday’s preview, you will know that this week I’m doing a day by day review of my week at Leiths School of Food and Wine. This is the round up of Monday 8th on the white intermediate course. My group (32 ish) was split into two classses of 16, each with two chefs (plus an amazing...

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July 12, 2013

Leiths Cookery Week preview

A few months ago, I signed up to do a week long cookery course at Leiths School of Food and Wine. For the last few years I’ve toyed with the idea of cooking full time but I’ve never committed – mostly because I couldn’t afford to take the time off to train, partly because I would hate to work chef hours, and...

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May 8, 2013

Naples – restaurant recommendations

I’ve just come back from the most fantastic holiday to Naples in Italy. Naples is a mad mad place – totally chaotic, a little bit grimy, and very very… Italian. The food is AMAZING. Naples is where pizza was invented, and their margherita pizzas are to die for. You will not find better pizza anywhere on the planet. Traditional pizzas...

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Category: Miscellany

Out with the old, in with the new

Leiths Cookery Week – day five

Leiths Cookery Week – day four

Leiths Cookery Week – day three

Leiths Cookery Week – day two

Leiths Cookery Week – day one

Leiths Cookery Week preview

Naples – restaurant recommendations