Tiny Test Kitchen

As Valentine’s Day fell on a Monday this year we didn’t quite have the time for a long drawn out meal. We were in the midst of moving and I was still feeling the effects of the dreaded first trimester 🙂 ! We split the meal over two days and had these delicious Smoked Gouda […]

After yesterday’s disturbingly healthy soup (except for the generous heap of Jack cheese I add to each bowl), I bet you were all hoping for a delicious gooey cream cake or a buttery pastry. Sorry to disappoint. You’ll have to wait until the next post for a sugary treat! But this recipe is also amazingly […]

Many girls love the movie Sabrina due to Audrey Hepburn and even though I would entirely love all the clothes she wears through that movie (designed by Givenchy!), I love Sabrina even more because of William Holden. I have always been obsessed with the 1950s. It probably stems from a misspent youth of watching far […]

Until last summer I thought that there was one type of beet. The large bright purple bulb that haunts your dreams as a small child if you have any German relations (I can say that because I do have German relatives), served chilled and pickled with a tangy vinegar sauce. They were honestly the stuff […]

Happy Labor Day! As a Brit I had no idea what Labor Day was until I just wikipedia-ed it (how isn’t that a word yet?)… and apparently it is a day to celebrate laborers. Interesting fact of the day – the first was held in New York and used as a bribe to appease workers […]

After last week’s Barbecue Chicken Thighs this recipe may be the second easiest recipe I have posted on this site. I almost feel guilty for posting them both together. The only reasons that I do not are firstly I know how little I want to be standing in front of a hot stove in the […]

A couple of years ago I tried a green papaya salad with a similar dressing. Green papaya is an unripe papaya, because of its’ hard and crispy texture to make it usable in a salad you need to wilt it with salt and sugar for at least an hour. I wanted to make a salad […]

As promised in yesterday’s post, Japanese Style Salad Dressing, here is a recipe for a delicious Seared Tuna Salad. This salad is an easy make-it-yourself restaurant style dish. I have so often ordered salads so similar to this in Japanese restaurants and never really thought about making one at home until I saw a gorgeous […]

Even though it sounds remarkably boring of me, one of the things that I look forward to most when eating out at Japanese restaurants is the salad. The vegetables used in the salad are not usually particularly interesting, although I do love the shredded carrots that are sometimes put in, it is the dressing takes […]

As I have mentioned in a previous post, alright… many previous posts, I love to entertain. This previous Friday we had one of our favorite couples over for a last minute dinner party. As I knew I had a lot of errands to run that day I wanted to make something that I could do […]