What’s Not to Love About Leftovers?

Blog Two lunches thrown together in seconds… Today was leftover sweet potato dahl and some simple accompaniments (previously I had just boiled peeled sweet potato chunks with red split lentils and mashed them all together once cooked through. Then finished with a...

Bubbling Edible Kitchen Pets

Blog Following a conversation about scobys’ and fermentation I thought I’d post about this wonderful book by Sharon Flynn of The Fermentary – a real fermenter’s bible with everything you need to know about getting to grips with this ancient art. Apart from...

Maximalist Kitchen Organisation

Blog Who said you need to be a minimalist to have beauty and order in the kitchen? I couldn’t live without my trinkets and kitchen oddities – but they do need a bit of regular ‘herding’ to go from just ‘things’ to ‘things of beauty’. This food photographer’s kitchen...

Comfort Food for the Weekend

Blog Simply poached free range chicken with seasonal roots and herbs and home-made flat breads Cover a large chicken with water in a pan for the hob and a few aromatics; roughly sliced carrots, celery, whole garlic cloves, a few herbs; parsley, bay, sage, thyme are...

An Organised Kitchen is a Happy Kitchen

Blog Keeping on top of your kitchen makes it a happy place to cook and create. The spice drawer has always taken pride of place in the Cook Folk Kitchen – dedicate a drawer or a basket to your spices and invest in little jars that you simply invert and label so you...