A delicious recipe for Ribollita – Tuscan White Bean Soup. Ribollita – Tuscan White Bean Soup Our recent adventure in Tuscany for our 2023 Relish Mama culinary tour was amazing. We had the pleasure of spending the week with some truly special people, and we can’t wait to share more stories and photos with you […]
Soup is like a bowl full of love. To me, it doesn’t matter what the flavour, it always makes me feel loved. My Nana’s best ever pumpkin soup I had my heart broken badly many years ago. I was the one who left him after six years of dating and living together […]
Lentil, barley and lemon soup – aka ‘Insert expletive here’ COVID soup What’s in a name? My initial recipe title was along the lines of ‘go away COVID’ but in not so polite words (followed by ‘soup’). I am glad I took to Google before posting. I had to Google if I was able […]
Tom Kha Gai I have been mind travelling a lot lately. Dreaming of faraway places and adventures on the horizon, to enjoy with family & friends on the other side of this very long lockdown. It seems to help me a lot. Have you been doing the same? A warming bowl of Tom […]
Potato and Leek Soup with homemade herby croutons Potato and Leek soup feels like a big cuddle in a bowl to me. It is such a simple soup to make and such a warm and comforting bowl of goodness to enjoy. The key is to sautee the leeks slowly. You can’t rush this as […]
Spiced red lentil and carrot soup Here is some solid love in a bowl to everyone, everywhere – for all that you have done and sacrificed during what has quite frankly been one bastard of a year. A huge hats off to fellow Victorians & an extra bowl of soup for you. What we have […]
Vegetarian harira soup Serves 6 My Mum makes the most beautiful spiced red lentil soup. I shared the recipe in my first book which was re-released just a couple of months ago (super exciting). It is the soup that she has always made for us as adults whenever she thinks we have needed nourishment and […]
Winter orange soup with sweet potato and pumpkin and carrots I make this soup often in Winter. I think the vibrant colour cheers me. Today I shared a bowl of this with my beautiful Ettie. She always opts for less chilli than I and so I add just a little chilli to the pot but […]
Photo credit – Tamara Erbacher. Styling credit – Lucienne Bowden I am in the throes of the most amazing experience and journey in the making of my second book. On Thursday this week, I handed in the final manuscript to my amazing (& patient) publisher. There were tears from me (exhausted and elated) as […]
Hello from my desk where I am supposed to be recipe creating and cooking class scheduling but instead….. I am eating. Slurping actually. It is all getting too hard so I am taking a breather to think, slurp my soup and write to you. Who says multi tasking is dead ! I think about […]
I’ve been making lots of homemade stock lately. I can’t quite keep up with the amount we use to supply the cooking school, but I am doing my best, and I really love the wonderful quality and sweeter flavours. Homemade vegetable stock recipe……. I think too many of us may throw out scraps of vegetables […]
This is my nourishing ‘go-to’ lunch of late. It only occurred to me today that for the last few Monday’s, I have made up a huge pot of this beautiful Italian inspired soup. Each batch has been unique as it is also a wonderful way to cook using the ingredients you might be craving as […]
Poached chicken recipe Eating well is as much about great quality and nourishing produce as it is about forethought and planning. It can all go pear-shaped when you run in the door, much later than you had hoped, and have to get your head around preparing something nourishing for yourself and often others. Poached […]
It feels like forever since I have posted a recipe here to share with this special community. I miss writing here so much and try to take the time to sit and write at least once every couple of weeks. Life has been very busy however and I have been writing and creating elsewhere over […]
I got a sweet email from my husband after lunch today. I know an email might sound a little ‘business like’ and impersonal but the truth is, I love these little interruptions when I receive them during my working day. Generally, they consist of just a sentence or two and when they are […]
I just had enjoyed this beautiful bowl of warming soup for my lunch just now and had to share the recipe with you for Meatless Monday. There’s time to whip it up for dinner after work tonight – it just does it’s own thing as you get on with chores, kid loving or perhaps […]
Our fridge & freezer recently died and naturally, this happened on a day that wasn’t particularly convenient. Then again, is there ever a convenient time for your refrigerator to decide to call it a day? On the day that ours decided to go, I was hosting a lunch in honour of my Sister with twenty […]
I had too much wine last Saturday night! It was just that ‘one extra glass’ that did it – it’s such a pain that last ‘one glass’! I blame it for a lot of things like a) that I find myself, the next morning, sluggishly walking around the house humming bad tunes the likes […]
I have had amazing minestrone and then I have had my equal share of poor ones too. A good one, put simply, has every component melting in your mouth, all perfectly blended and balanced. It is both warming and healing I had a beautiful pot of this on the stove top the other day, when […]
Spiced Red Lentil and Carrot Soup This spiced red lentil and carrot soup is one of those recipes that feels both nourishing and deeply comforting. It’s simple to make, full of flavour, and made from ingredients you’re likely to already have on hand. The kind of meal that quietly becomes part of your regular rhythm. […]
