Growing up, I was fortunate enough to have made a number of trips to Europe to visit my family in Germany. One thing I never considered fortunate, however, was typical German food. Even as an omnivorous child, I found the meat-heavy diet favoured in Germany to be offputting at best. I’ve since discovered that German [...]

Back when I was only vegetarian, and Chadwiko and I had just moved in together, he gave me a homestyle vegetarian cookbook that he’d picked up solely so that I could make him the lasagne in it. With ricotta, a lot of basil, a thick bechamel sauce and pine nuts, it became a quick favourite [...]

There was a terrifying moment here over the weekend. Growing increasingly bored of unpacking things and cleaning, I chose to distract myself by familiarising myself with my new kitchen. The most important task, of course, was investigating my new oven. I placed a shiny new oven thermometer inside and was momentarily self-congratulatory- I was part [...]