turkish poached eggs in yogurt (cilbir)

Turkish poached eggs in yogurt (cilbir) I have a feeling that when I meet new people I have barely got the social niceties out of the way be...

flemish asparagus

asparagus with Flemish sauce It is English asparagus season for which I will happily bellow three cheers (being such a shy and retiring pers...

fancy breakfast or brunch? baked egg and proscuitto in a bread roll

baked egg and proscuitto in a bread roll Every so often I find a couple of rock-hard bread rolls looking up at me forlornly from the bread b...

kaya toast: a weird but wonderful breakfast of champions!

kaya toast with soy eggs It's not really weird, although it might sound a bit odd to English tastes. It's a Singapore-Malaysian thin...

the gentle heart of a recipe: hilda leyel's salad of mint leaves and beans

hilda leyel's salad of mint leaves and beans Whenever I can, I like to wallow in old cookbooks. It both comforts and relaxes me; I enjoy...

roasted vegetable frittata

roasted vegetable frittata There is an advert on the telly at the moment for a well-known food brand. It irritates me for a number of reaso...

dragons' eggs (or chinese tea eggs)

chinese tea eggs My family was divided as to what the strange, mottled boiled eggs that were sold at various corner grocers shops and hawker...

eggs fried with breadcrumbs and herbs

eggs fried with breadcrumbs and herbs The first time I had these eggs I experienced something of a hallelujah moment; I couldn't make u...

egg sambal (malaysian spicy eggs)

egg sambal I don't have a bucket list . If I did, it would be more likely to be a big, fat cauldron - a list of fabulous things that I m...

nasi goreng (malaysian fried rice)

nasi goreng It's not often that I turn from mild-mannered cook by day into my foodie crime-fighting alter-ego; righting food wrongs with...

devilled eggs: time for a revival?

devilled eggs Almost from the moment that humans first learned to cook an egg, I suspect that they were " devilling " (spicing) th...

deep- fried breaded camembert with spicy plum sauce

deep-fried camembert with spicy plum sauce As a truculent teen-aged vegetarian, I wasn't expecting much (well too many veggie options) f...

lost in france: my salade lyonnaise

salade lyonnaise (bacon and egg salad) After walking around a small town in southern France for what seemed like hours, we still hadn't ...