Category Archives: Non Sweet Food
Great Pub Food and Vegetable Pasties
I admit that I’m at a disadvantage when it comes to British pub food – the main reason for that, obviously, is that I was raised in the US, where pubs are a bit of a novelty and tend to hang onto hokey Irish stereotypes. So when Hardie Grant Books sent me a lovely copy […]
Pasta Alfredo
I love pasta – as far as I’m concerned, there is no bad way to cook it. Whether I’m whipping up an impromptu red sauce or putting some fresh spinach and ricotta pasta in to boil, I’d probably have pasta at least once a week if Beardy Boyfriend didn’t veto. But my favourite sauce of […]
Frito Chili Pie
I love winter food – for some reason, it’s nice to be able to cuddle up with a bowl of something warm and comforting, whether it’s a nice pasta cream sauce, some slow cooked risotto or, in this case, some Frito Chili Pie. I decided to try this recipe to fight off the winter chill […]
Empanada Gallegas
Patri of the blog, Asi Son Los Cosas, was our September 2012 Daring Bakers’ hostess and she decided to tempt us with one of her family’s favorite recipes for Empanadas! We were given two dough recipes to choose from and encouraged to fill our Empanadas as creatively as we wished! This was my first month […]
Chicken Tortilla Soup and Pioneer Woman Cooks
While I’m staying with my parents in Delaware, I’m having a chance to use the amazing New Castle County Public Library System (far, far better than the Lambeth Public Library system – especially for cookbooks and non-fiction!) As a result, I was able to check out a few amazing cookbooks, including the wonderful Pioneer Woman […]
Homemade Pizza, Mark 1!
I decided to do something brave last week – I decided to try to make my own pizza from scratch! This has historical origins. When I was a fresher, Jenny, a girl in my dorm, used to make the most delicious homemade pizza. So I decided to try to do it myself. What’s pizza dough […]
Butternut Squash Risotto
Risotto is one of those foods that seems to be every hotel dining room’s vegetarian specialty! While I’m not a vegetarian, I’ve taken the vegetarian option at enough hotels that I know that while it’s easy enough to make a mediocre risotto, a truly exceptional one is hard to do! I tried making some from […]
Food in Olympic Park
I’m not sure if I’ve shared this on my blog, but I’ve been volunteering at the London Olympics. I know the Olympics have been quite controversial amongst Londoners, with the amount of money that’s being put into into it at a time when really good services have been cut (and trust me, I say this […]
Classic Swiss Fondue
Little known fact about me: as a teenager, I worked in a fondue restaurant. In the interest of name checking, I will note that it was quite a lovely and posh fondue restaurant and one of our customers was none other than Joe Biden! I can confirm that there’s no way that tan is natural…but […]
Pretzel-icious
When we were in fourth grade, all the students had to identify our favourite food. Mine was obvious: soft pretzels! (Yeah, in retrospect, all my food loves come from growing up in Amish country.) So when I posted this photo of my chocolate dipped pretzels, a Twitter friend of mine noted that she had an […]
