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Roasted squash with feta + preserved lemon

Roasted squash with feta + preserved lemon

This recipe features in the October edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from The knackered Mother’s Wine Club. Vegetables are increasingly the star of the show in my kitchen. The vegetable drawer is often my first port of call when choosing what to 

Smoked haddock oatcake tart

Smoked haddock oatcake tart

This recipe features in the September/October edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from The knackered Mother’s Wine Club. This tart is inspired by the flavours of an omelette Arnold Bennet, but instead of bechamel and hollandaise on an egg and haddock base, I’ve 

Oven-baked crispy cauliflower bhajis

Oven-baked crispy cauliflower bhajis

I created this recipe when my children came home from school and nursery announcing that they didn’t like cauliflower. Well of course you don’t! Who likes plain cauliflower, boiled in unsalted water, probably by way of a lengthy stint in the deep freeze?! To show 

Buffalomi with plums, honey and pistachios

Buffalomi with plums, honey and pistachios

This recipe features in the August/September edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from The knackered Mother’s Wine Club. When a top Hampshire producer annouces a new cheese, I get the same feeling of ancipation that most people get when their favourite band brings 

Charred cabbage with nduja butter

Charred cabbage with nduja butter

This recipe features in the July/August edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from The knackered Mother’s Wine Club. In recent years the great British barbecue has evolved from an all-out meat-fest into something much more refined. Burgers and sausages have been nudged aside 

Brown crab custard with asparagus + samphire salad

Brown crab custard with asparagus + samphire salad

This recipe features in the June/July edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from The knackered Mother’s Wine Club. Crab and asparagus is one of my favourite flavour combinations in early summer. Savoury custard might seem a bit unusual, but it really shows off 

Green vegetable pakoras + coriander chutney

Green vegetable pakoras + coriander chutney

This recipe features in the May/June edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from The knackered Mother’s Wine Club. I love incorporating fresh Hampshire produce into recipes from far flung places. These crispy little flavour bombs are packed full of early summer vegetables and 

Overnight sourdough focaccia

Overnight sourdough focaccia

If you’re new to sourdough baking, focaccia is the perfect loaf to get you started: easy, forgiving, endlessly customisable and – most importantly – ridiculously delicious.

Aromatic milk-braised wild boar

Aromatic milk-braised wild boar

This recipe features in the April/May edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from The knackered Mother’s Wine Club. The last twelve months has been a time to rejoice in small luxuries, especially where food is concerned. We started buying unpasteurised milk from Hiltonbury 

Easter chick choux buns

Easter chick choux buns

This was another idea that I literally needed to bake out of my head: choux bun ‘eggs’ encasing fluffy yellow ‘chicks’.