Things I love to eat.
My childhood home is at the end of a dirt track at the top of a hill, and in the winter we often woke up to waist-high snow drifts. We couldn’t get out to go to school, so we’d spend the day throwing ourselves into heaps of snow, or watching the dogs disappear, bewildered, into… Continue reading Tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich
As a student, I think I ate enough store-bought pesto to last me a lifetime, and now, basil pesto can only be an occasional pasta accompaniment. A while ago we had a bunch of parsley in the fridge with nothing to do, and weren’t feeling energetic enough to go to the store. No matter what,… Continue reading Pasta with parsley & sunflower pesto & fresh tomato
We had planned to have a very simple dinner last night: burrata, peaches, olive oil, basil, fresh bread. But the wind was howling outside, the showers spritzing the balcony, and though it was far from freezing, we felt too chilly to entertain a cold supper. So I took a look in our pantry for a… Continue reading Tomato, miso & crème fraiche spaghettini
Back when I lived alone and worked more than is healthy, feeding myself became such an effort. If a recipe took longer than 15 minutes to cook and used more than one pan, I wasn’t making it. One of the easiest things I used to make was some combination of vegetables, roasted with garlic and… Continue reading Roasted veg & eggs
I’ve been making this pasta for years, but only last night did it occur to me to mix the ricotta into the sauce instead of just dolloping it on top at the end. It’s a dish transformed. It’s hot in Berlin just now, but it was worth turning my kitchen into a steam room for… Continue reading Fennel, tomato & ricotta spaghetti