Tiny Test Kitchen

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 […]

In a more than disturbing turn of events, when C and I first began dating I asked him whether he liked fish. Sushi is an all time passion of mine (it’s also pretty much the only thing I can eat whenever I am hungover – I know, it’s weird), so I knew that if this […]

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 everyone who regularly reads this blog knows, I absolutely hate to waste food! Everything that can be salvaged from a meal served in my kitchen, will be salvaged. As I made Tuesday’s Thai Red Curry for just my husband and myself I had about a third of it leftover (I should have had half […]

As I have mentioned before, one of the prerequisites to being English is that you must love curry, and if you don’t I am not quite sure what to do with you! This usually refers to what most people think of as “Indian” curry; for me it covers all manners of curry. In fact, I […]

For some reason on Monday evenings I hit a wall when it comes to cooking. I just cannot fathom how exactly I am going to cook wholesome, interesting meals for the next five days until the weekend rolls around again. That is why I am thankful I have meals like this one in my back […]