Recipes I once posted

Lockdown meals need to be quick, comforting and tasty. Here are a few recipes I’ve posted on Instagram over the past year. Wild garlic pesto is on everyone’s feeds at the moment and it’s growing in abundance in my local woods. If you’re lucky enough to pass some on your daily walk, do pick some […]

Blue Christmas

And just like that, it’s winter. Christmas is three weeks away, we’re about to have our third general election in five years, and we’re hurtling towards the end of a decade – and our membership of the European Union. I’m tentatively tiptoeing into the festive period and, as is often the case for me at […]

Autumn sweater

We haven’t heard the last swansong of summer just yet, but there’s definitely a chill in the air. Last week, I wore a jumper for the first time in months, and I was almost tempted to put the heating on. The nights may be drawing in, but the sun’s still shining. It’s not quite the weather […]

Blackberry picking

The last time I posted a recipe on here back in May, it was asparagus season and summer was on the way. As I write this, it’s 1 September, what I think of as the first day of autumn, although summer apparently lasts until 23 September. It’s a beautiful day and the sun is shining, […]

Eat your greens

You know it’s peak asparagus season when it’s all you can see as you thumb your way  through Instagram. We’ve reached the end of what farmers call the hungry gap, when, in early spring, there is little fresh produce available. That period is well and truly over, with greens lining up on the shelves of […]

Spring fever

We’re slowly inching away from the cold, dark months of winter, but I’m not quite full of the joys of spring. That could be because it’s been rainy and windy for the last three days or because I’ve been feeling rundown and unwell, but I don’t think that’s it. Maybe I just need some pie. […]

Light at the end of the tunnel

We’re almost halfway through February, a short but (bitter)sweet month. It’s always been a happy time for me because it’s when I celebrate my birthday and it’s one step closer to the beginning of spring. By the end of February, it’ll be almost six o’clock before it gets dark, and just a month later, the […]

I don’t care if Monday’s blue…

Today (21 January) is Blue Monday, which is apparently the bleakest day of the year. It’s something to do with the post-Christmas slump, failed new year’s resolutions, gloomy weather and being broke until pay day. It’s true that January can be pretty joyless, but it can also be a quiet, contempalative and even quite consoling […]

Recipes for Bonfire Night

And so it’s November, the quiet spell before the festive fervour begins – and when it really starts to get cold. It’s also World Vegan Month (Thursday was World Vegan Day) and a recent survey has revealed that one in eight Brits are vegan or vegetarian, while 21% of us follow a flexitarian diet. It […]

Scary spice

October has crept past me and all of a sudden, the clocks have gone back and it’s Halloween. The past four weeks have been a bit of a blur after a short stint of working nine to five in Cardiff. While I enjoyed it (I met some great people, the work was interesting and it […]