I interviewed Anna Jones (author of A Modern Way to Cook and A Modern Way to Eat) about a month ago for The Pool, and since then I have made a few things from her most recent book because I just really love it. It's not often that a cookery book resonates so strongly with me, as I really prefer to just do my own thing, but this book has some recipes that I just can't resist trying. I've posted about making the Sticky Green Bean and Paneer Curry previously, and this time I jus

I had the girls round for dinner the other night and cooked up a few Moroccan dishes for us all, so thought I'd share them. I always like to make a few things to allow for different tastes and it allows us all to be greedy too. We started with cherry bellinis (cherry juice, fresh cherries and fizz), then moved on to the main event. I made a summery chicken tagine that morning in my slow cooker by chucking some bone-in chicken pieces in the crockpot with loads of green olives,

I live in Golders Green, the London spiritual home of the bagel, so when I received an email asking me to try out new Bagel Sandwich Thins from the New York Bakery Co I politely let the PR know that I didn't tend to think that supermarket bagels were up to much, and that they probably would not cut it with my bagel worshipping Jewish husband. She held firm and sent me some anyway, convinced we would like them. Bagels are usually a no-go for me as they are so carb heavy and pa

Ali Nazik is one of my absolute favourite dishes at our local Turkish restaurant - which is incidentally, amazing. I thought it was just something they had created and it tastes like quite a complex blend of flavours so is hard to guess the ingredients, but on a recent jaunt to the homeland I spotted the same dish on the menu at their Turkish place, Bosphorus (also very good), which got me very excited. Upon googling it, it's actually unbelievably easy to make - essentially a