Sometimes I like my soups like this, rich, thick and velvety. This recipe was conceived and written during a bout of sleeplessness. Unlike me, Mr. Pear is consistently excellent at sleeping – barely 2 minutes and zonk. It’s comical. While he sleeps I try to exhaust myself in the quietest way possible, but the inside of my head itches … Continue reading
Ugly food is good food. This stir-fry is full of soft textures and gentle flavours, quite unlike the complex profiles of the more popular Thai dishes. Even if you’re a chilli fiend who loads up on the stinkiest fermented sauces, sometimes your palate (and, let’s be real, your guts) become exhausted, and you return to … Continue reading
Jerusalem artichokes are to my mind a bit strange, but that doesn’t stop me from liking them. I like them cooked slowly until their flesh, apple-crisp and bitter when raw, softens and mellows invitingly. They do not become more attractive upon cooking, though–in fact they become, if anything, even more hideous. This is not a … Continue reading
I shall begin this by saying that I am certainly not the first Thai person ever to be thinking of vegetarian Thai food in a manner that is a little different to the established Chinese Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. For example, Leela has cooked a range of vegan and vegetarian Thai dishes in her ‘My Thai’ series … Continue reading
Is it just me, or does British autumn cuisine not include pumpkin with quite so much enthusiasm as in the U.S.? It seems that, come autumn, there’s a deluge of pumpkin everything on the U.S. food blogosphere: pumpkin butter, pumpkin pie, pumpkin lattes. It seems to be a crucial part of the cultural image of … Continue reading
Yes, yes, everyone and their grandma has blogged about this, but I remain undeterred. I usually enjoy pasta sauces with deep, layered flavours where you brown lots of things in your cast-iron cauldron and let it simmer for hundreds of years. Then you rise from your enchanted sleep, boil some pasta, and consume the dish … Continue reading
The Furious Pear Pie 
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