Flavour

It’s been a while since I wrote a piece here. Life gets in the way sometimes and I struggle to articulate my thoughts when I’m overwhelmed. I’ve been to a few different countries over the past year, including Turkey, Greece and Albania, and each time I’ve been reminded of the importance of fresh, flavoursome vegetables, […]

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Marvellous Marrows

It’s that time of year when the courgettes in the veg patch have absorbed all of that lovely summer rain and swollen into marrows. This makes them a little bit watery, dilutes the flavour a bit but makes them perfect for stuffing or if you’re a Magyar, you make tökfőzelék. Yep. It’s yet another variation […]

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Popeye’s favourite

With the timing only I can manage, I’ve chosen to write about spinach főzelék just as the weather here in Liverpool has suddenly remembered that it’s August and has finally stopped raining. In my defence, last week it was proper ark building weather so I thought a lovely comforting bowl of creamy garlicky spinach was […]

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Főzelék

Say what now? főzelék? (pronounced fur-zel-lake) What’s that when it’s at home? Well, that’s kind of the point. You’ll rarely find főzelék in a restaurant, though I hear the new generation of Hungarian chefs are starting to bring this epitome of home cooking into their culinary world. So what is it? It’s a way of […]