Last week I made the biggest dinner of my life. After twenty-four hours of whisking, simmering and baking under the rafters of Bristol’s oldest synagogue – and in a kitchen that at times felt like it too had been put together by the fair hands of a Victorian chippy – I hosted the first Shabbat […]
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Orange & Fennel Pickled Herrings with Fennel & Caraway Kichelach (Biscuits)
The Mother-in-Law has been on the move. She went (to New York), came (home) and went again (to London). And she’s been gone for some weeks. It’s probably for the best that she’s scarpered though, given that both children are potentially harbouring chicken pox somewhere beneath their sweet-smelling, peachy skin. Yes, I’m sure a bout […]
Orange & Fennel Pickled Herrings with Fennel & Caraway Kichelach (Biscuits)
The Mother-in-Law has been on the move. She went (to New York), came (home) and went again (to London). And she’s been gone for some weeks. It’s probably for the best that she’s scarpered though, given that both children are potentially harbouring chicken pox somewhere beneath their sweet-smelling, peachy skin. Yes, I’m sure a bout […]
Orange and Bay Jelly
Zippy, my almost-three-year-old daughter, has, for the past few months, become somewhat obsessed with food. I have always encouraged us to cook together and she is by far the most adventurous eater in our family, which she recently proved by licking a sprat at the fishmongers. A raw sprat. In front of the fishmonger. However, […]