Easter chocolate eggs and bunnies are always a bit disappointing when it comes to taste (unless you’ve splashed out on some fancy one). The crushed up packaging with the bashed and bruised shards get shoved to the back of the cupboard only to be rediscovered months [...]

Have a bunch of tooth breakingly hard pears in your fruit bowl? Instead of waiting of them to ripen why not steam them and combine them with a rich chocolate pudding?

Photo: Laura Edwards Food styling: Frankie Unsworth Note: These are recipes inspired by my trip to Japan in 2014 (Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka-Chibu). The trip inspired me on many levels. I’ve had a lot of lovely messages from you guys who live there asking for Japanese inspired [...]

A smörgåsbord of languages fill my head: English, German and French have been occupying my grey matter for quite a while, and now I’m trying to squeeze in a new language – Swedish. Of course, with all these different languages floating around my brain, it [...]

The tail end of winter has to be celebrated and what better way to celebrate than with the last clementines and some radicchio. The colours look amazing on the plate and the flavours also work together like a treat too. Bitter radicchio + sweet acidic clementines + creamy buratta =  a simple salad packed with flavour.

Inspiration for dishes can come to me anywhere, even at 10,000 ft in the air. This recipe was inspired by the plane food (yes it’s not all soggy sandwiches) to Japan which started off with a delicious crunchy daikon salad followed by a bowl of steaming ramen noodle soup.

Photo: Laura Edwards Food styling: Frankie Unsworth Note: These are recipes inspired by my trip to Japan in 2014 (Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka-Chibu). The trip inspired me on many levels. I’ve had a lot of lovely messages from you guys who live there asking for Japanese inspired [...]

Photo: Laura Edwards Food styling: Frankie Unsworth Note: These are recipes inspired by my trip to Japan in 2014 (Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka-Chibu). The trip inspired me on many levels. I’ve had a lot of lovely messages from you guys who live there asking for Japanese inspired [...]

Photo: Laura Edwards Food styling: Frankie Unsworth Note: These are recipes inspired by my trip to Japan in 2014 (Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka-Chibu). The trip inspired me on many levels. I’ve had a lot of lovely messages from you guys who live there asking for Japanese inspired [...]

Out of the numerous sweets I tried in Japan the majority of them were filled with red or white beans. The white sweet bean paste is sometimes dyed in pretty pastel colours and formed into beautiful flowers to be served as part of the tea ceremony.