Green Tea Soup with Roasted Eggplant

Green tea soup – ochazuke – is one of my favourite Japanese dishes. Traditionally, it is served with rice and … More

Rose Petal, Cashew & Olive Oil Granola

My desk is a small, white, wooden number with a set of drawers on the left. The desktop is chipped … More

It’s a mid-winter afternoon. The skies are heavy with bruised purple clouds, the light low and dark. I’m in the … More

We were woken up at 3am on Sunday morning with a sudden roar of wind and rain. W cried out … More

When you go to the supermarket you usually find three or four types of apples – golden delicious, granny smith, … More

We celebrated the start of winter with a swim at the beach. Such is the life when living in the … More

South of my days’ circle, part of my blood’s country, rises that tableland, high delicate outline of bony slopes wincing … More

rain that defies rain’s downwardness and spools past the windows, frame by frame – film after film of Edwardian rain. … More

Now that we are a month into autumn, night comes early. By the time we are sitting down to dinner … More

A few days ago a baby gecko was darting about the kitchen. It was the size of my pinky finger … More