There are certain things you expect to find outside your front door in an Andalusian village. A neighbour stopping for a chat. A delivery van attempting the seemingly impossible task of squeezing along a narrow street. Perhaps a procession, a horse or two, or the...
Some ingredients don't look particularly exciting sitting on the supermarket shelf. Then you bring them home, start experimenting, and suddenly wonder why they haven't always had a place in your kitchen. Aldi's Asia Green Garden Panko Breadcrumbs are one of those...
Every now and then you cook something that quietly takes you by surprise. Not because it's complicated or particularly clever, but because every mouthful makes you pause for a second before reaching for the next. This swordfish dish was one of those meals. I'd found a...
Have to admit, until fairly recently, we'd never heard of the butter bell. We just did what I suppose most people do - keep the butter in fridge, where it's always too hard and cold. Or, leave it out in a butter dish and return to a swimming pool of buttery oil in...
If you've been wondering why the renovation updates suddenly stopped, you're certainly not alone. When we bought our Andalusian townhouse, I had every intention of documenting the journey as it happened. I imagined regular posts showing each stage of the...
Now that the dust is settling - quite literally - on our renovation project, I've started to reflect on the mad journey we have been on since July 2024, when we finally left Istria. In fact before then, because the journey started for real, when we finished the...
To be honest, a mouse in the house, was probably the last thing we needed after the last couple of months of storms and leaking roofs and the onset of a big repaint job throughout the house. But I suppose mice don't take into account the fact that you'd like a little...
We seem to forever buy pots of herbs - hello, basil and coriander, especially - which will often end up withered and only fit for the bin. They're always bought for a specific recipe, and whatever isn't immediately used on the plant, never seems to thrive, however...
As winter takes hold, this is a super delicious winter warmer - Fresh Pea & Mint Pesto with Butter Beans & Roasted Tomatoes. And, as far as I can tell, it's vegetarian and suitable vegans if the Greek yogurt is omitted and maybe an alternative used - although...
Over the years we've been finding that, especially over the summer, our use of plastic water bottles increases significantly. We always recycle plastics, but we were creating our own small mountain of bottles and often our plastics bin (which was only collected every...