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Eating caprese as often as I can get away with in this heat.

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A bowl of Caprese salad: halved baby plum tomatoes wirh torn mozzarella and basil, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and seasoned with freshly ground rock salt and black pepper.
July 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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What am I making? 😋

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A bowl of ingredients: cloves of garlic, sliced chillies, shallots, torn makrut lime leaves, lemon grass, and sliced galangal.
June 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Finishing off the last of the holiday smoked salmon. 😅
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Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on seeded toast, topped with curled strips of spring onion.
January 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Peaches, mozzarella, dried thyme, salt, pepper, chilli, almond flakes and olive oil on toast.

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Slices of peach and mozzarella on toast, drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with seasoning and almond flakes.
August 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Spaghetti in 'strumpet sauce'; alla puttanesca, that is. 😄
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A bowl of spaghetti in a sauce of tomatoes, capers, anchovies and kalamata olives, garnished with fresh basil.
April 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Add a small squeeze of lemon juice and a pinch of salt to your orange juice. Trust me. 😘

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A glass of iced orange juice. The glass features a design of geological ages with fossils in the rock layers.
August 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Glorious, golden, garlicky mushrooms. 😋
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Shimeji and chestnut mushrooms sautéed with garlic, butter, and soy sauce.
September 2, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Lemon grass tofu.
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Cubes of golden, fried tofu stir-fried with chopped lemon grass, garlic, chilli, onion, and soy sauce. Garnished with coriander and served with rice.
October 17, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Grilled cheese sandwich with peaches and black pepper.

Cheddar works best as its sharpness complements the sweetness of the peaches beautifully, but all I had to hand this time was some Boursin and a stub of Emmental, and they're just as delicious for a milder flavour.

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Golden brown grilled cheese and peach sandwich on a bamboo chopping board.
July 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Who likes roast salmon?

Garlic and chilli roasted salmon with a soy sauce, lemon juice, and honey glaze. #NateeCooks
Garlic and chilli roasted salmon with a soy sauce, lemon juice, and honey glaze.
December 25, 2023 at 7:28 PM
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Shakshouka on a cloudy and windy day, and one with, dare I say it, an almost autumnal chill in the air already.

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A pan of two eggs poached in a sauce of spiced tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, and onions, sprinkled with chopped coriander.
August 21, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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A glowing dish for a(nother) very dull day. Turmeric fried rice with roasted vegetables, spiced chickpeas and halloumi.
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A dish piled with golden turmeric fried rice, roasted courgette, aubergine, red and yellow peppers, red onion, spiced chickpeas, and fried slices of halloumi, scattered with chopped parsley.
June 9, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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Tom kha: Thai galangal and coconut milk soup. Traditionally made with chicken (tom kha gai; gai = chicken), this one is made with a medley of mushrooms: oyster, king oyster, and white shimeji, so is a _tom kha hed_.

I'm out of coriander/cilantro, which makes me very sad. Ah, well.

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A bowl of tom kha: Thai galangal and coconut milk soup, made in this instance with three types of mushrooms, garnished with sliced chillies, chopped spring onion, and more makrut lime leaves.
June 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Clinging to the last of summer. Caprese plus avocado. Emphasis on 'plus', as it's of course not part of a traditional Caprese salad, but does add nutritional, textural, palatal, and visual value alike.
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Halved cherry tomatoes and torn mozzarella surround an avocado centre, the latter sliced and arranged into a foliate shape, drizzled with pesto and olive oil, and scattered with basil.
September 1, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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I made laab again. 😋 It wasn't planned as such, but I'm now calling it a small and much belated Songkran celebration. If merely to distract myself from certain heinous developments in the UK today.

Again, mine is vegetarian and is a _laab kua_, the pan-fried, northern Thai version.
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Laab (ลาบ) is a spicy, traditionally meat-based 'salad' of Lao origin with variants in neighbouring Thailand, Myanmar, and China's Yunnan province. Mine is a vegetarian version made with pan-fried, crumbled tofu, and is the heavily spiced Lanna (northern Thai) variant, garnished with plenty of chopped spring onion, coriander, mint, and crispy fried onions.
May 8, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Garlic roasted tomatoes with burrata, pine nuts, chilli flakes and plenty of olive oil.

This is one of those rare instances when I'm out of Italian basil but have Thai basil to spare. 😆

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Sliced tomatoes and whole cherry plum tomatoes roasted with sliced garlic and rosemary, served with burrata drizzled with olive oil and scattered with pine nuts, basil, and chilli flakes.
August 21, 2023 at 8:18 PM
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Time to make this again. Crispy chickpeas with spiced peaches & charred red onions. From a recipe by Justine Doiron. A little Maillard Reaction seems appropriate on the hottest day of the year.

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A bowl of rice topped with grilled spiced peaches, charred red onions, and pan-crispened chickpeas, with a light sprinkling of chopped coriander (cilantro) and a sprig of mint.
September 9, 2023 at 5:41 PM