Those weeks after the comfortable and snug carpet of being a student is yanked from underneath your feet have to be the worst. Followed closely by realising that you won’t be getting student discounts ever again so you become broker than you thought you were because everything […]
Guilt-free Triple Whammy Treats: Healthy + Quick + Cheap Gooey Chocolate Balls
I really do think the secret to happiness is not just having great eyebrows but also being able to prepare your own food from scratch. Nowadays it’s a bit of a luxury because we’re all busy and if you think about it, it’s a bit […]
Obsession or Quality Assurance: Baked & Crispy Sweet Potato Chips + Pesto-chup
Isn’t it great that (depending on how you look at it) we spend our whole lives mastering who we really are? I mean, I thought I knew who Aisha was but I couldn’t have been more wrong. I’ve recently discovered that when I’m obsessed with […]
Tiny Gems: Beetroot & Super Dark Chocolate Mini Cupcakes + Butterless Frosting
I have always disliked beetroot. Its ugly skin, earthy and slightly bland taste and just how it looks, all cooked and cubed up at salad bars. Ew. So I recently completed a marathon (thank you, thank you) and in the run up to it, I […]
Five-A-Day Cheat: Seasoned + Baked Parsnip Strips
Quick riddle. What is thin, crispy and delicious but terribly un-photogenic? Parsnip strips. Okay, let’s move on from that awful joke. I have been obsessed with vegetable peelers since watching this incredible video and reading Warren Berger’s Glimmer. A small section of it explains how […]
Tiny cakes, bold flavours: Ginger + Nectarine + Apricot mini cupcakes
As much as I’d love this to be a ‘dust off the new year diet-inducing cobwebs from the cake mixer’ post, reality is it’s not. Your cake mixers can continue to gather the dust but you CAN bake your (mixer-less) cake and eat it […]
Super citrusy summer drink: Lemon, lime, mint, baobab + watermelon
You wouldn’t believe how hot the past few weeks have been in London. Really really hot like ‘I’m stuck in this sauna and I can’t get out’ kinda hot. Due to the heat I’ve cut down on using the cooker or oven so less cooking […]
Django Unchained tribute: Crimson-splattered white cake
Note: This is not a review of Django Unchained. This is just me expressing my intense admiration for a genius masterpiece in the only way I know how to express myself; through food. The foodie in me woke up at the white cake scene. Instead […]
Feel my pulse(s): Hearty chunky lentils + beans soup
Lately it’s been cold and icy and some days are snowy, I swear I just want to retreat to my bed and hibernate, the real hibernation that real animals like bears do. Think about it, it could totally work if we were all synchronised. All […]
Good things come in small pastries: Banana tarlets + toffee sauce
Pastries and anything to do with dough are two things that scare me. I throw in the towel whenever I’m faced with a challenge like that and I don’t even know why. Maybe it’s because I feel that it’s so easy to get something like […]
Zero-fuss pasta: Spinach + chorizo tagliatelle
You know when you really really fancy a tasty meal that requires minimal effort? I was in that kind of mood when I made this dish. It was simple, straight to the point, quick (yup I honestly think 15 minutes to prepare a meal is […]
A short-term cake alternative: Courgette ribbons, tomatoes + parma ham salad
I think a little bit of me dies each day I don’t bake. This has been going on for almost 2 weeks now all because I have a 10 km race coming up on Sunday, so I’ve decided to cut off SOME refined sugar and […]
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