Elly Pear (or Elly Curshen) is definitely one of my favourite follows on Instagram. She posts about good quality skincare, great food and Cos clothes… three of my all-time favourite things. Elly also has a café in Bristol, The Pear Café and two cookbooks two her name. Her first, Fast […]
Monthly archives: August 2018
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Now three books in and in no sign of slowing down. The wonderful Sabrina Ghayour has published three essential books in the last few years. Feasts is her latest Middle Eastern inspired cookbook. Scanning the book, it was hard to decide what to cook first. I haven’t been to the […]
I first made this sweet n’ salty Honey Pie at a little dinner party I held to celebrate the launch of Nigella Lawson’s last book, Simply Nigella. I reviewed the book and the Honey Pie in a now defunct blog – both the book and the pie received glowing praise […]
I had some leftover black pudding lingering in the fridge after an indulgent breakfast-for-dinner some nights earlier. I knew I’d seen a recipe for a black pudding ragu in one of go-to cookbooks but I had to look through index after index before I found it in Thomasina Miers’ reliable […]
For someone who isn’t a ‘Chilli Head’, (I start to sweat even looking at a bottle of the ubiquitous Sriracha sauce), I fucking love a chilli! I’ve had to add a dedicated chilli section dedicated to them here on Pigley’s Kitchen, or maybe I’ll just set up a separate chilli-fangirl […]
Where better to start a blog than with breakfast. Turkish eggs seem a very en vogue breakfast at the moment. I’ve seen recipes for them in several cookbooks released over the last year or so (notably, Diana Henry’s Simple and Nigella’s At My Table). Dan Doherty seems to be the […]
Everyday Brownies… because one should never consider a life where one cannot enjoy a brownie everyday. After reinvigorating the art of home-baking with her sophomore tome, How To Be a Domestic Goddess, long before that exiled BBC TV show, the Rt. Honourable Nigella Lawson should be rightfully viewed as a […]