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Stories and lots of unfussy recipes to try, all from my kitchen in Toulouse

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April 2024 Newsletter

Bilbao, San Sebastian, and Basque Cheesecake

Fondant Potatoes with Duck Fat and Thyme

Why spring cooking stresses me out

March 2024 Newsletter

French musicals, a pub quiz from hell, and a hot cross bun treacle tart

French Roast Chicken with Garlic Butter

For the perfect slap-up Easter Sunday celebration

#2 Mid-Month Monday: Camembert and Cordes-sur-Ciel

I write this from a blustery Somerset where that old Ford cars expression is a permanent pathetic fallacy - “you can have any weather you desire, as long as it’s rain.” Somerset truly fits the cliche of pastoral England; the rambling green hills, the drizzle, and the water droplets clinging to the window, all to the soundtrack of loud caws as crows flap overhead. There are no street lights so…

Chocolate Biscoff Banoffee Pie

Can it be true? The French are copying... British food?!

February 2024 Newsletter

The iconic foods of Toulouse and my issue with brunch

Caramelised Onion and Feta Galette

The battle with beige

#1 Mid-Month Monday: French exit

January chugged into February with me and a group of friends here in France (literally known as The Group on our group chat) all aboard the birthday train - a statistically improbable number of birthdays from late January to mid-February, so there were parties and cakes and copious g&ts and bottles of red to celebrate.

Pancake Day: French Crepes and Caramel Beurre Salé

Turns out, the British and the French have more in common than we'd like