Despite my best intentions, I haven't been blogging nearly as frequently as I'd like in the past couple of months. Part of this is d...

How did that happen? It's been 11 days since my last post! I have had a busy couple of weeks. T was ill, I got up at 5am to fly to Birmi...

This post marks the first birthday of this blog! It's been a bit of an up and down year for me, and I guess this is reflected in the blo...

The borscht I made a few weeks ago needed a bit of pork hock in it. I wasn't going to bother, but it was surprisingly cheap for such a ...

It's taken me ages to write this post, just because there has been absolutely zero daylight in Edinburgh to take pictures with. It's...

Last Christmas, I got a madeleine tin. I was excited to have such a one-purpose piece of kitchenalia, but there was a problem. The problem w...

After my recent trip to Russia , I have been craving borscht. I've made it once before a few years ago (and stained practically everythi...

After taking T's brother and his girlfriend to a couple of restaurants over the long weekend, we decided that Saturday night should be a...