A crunchy spicy salad

Green Apple, Fennel and Celeriac with Lime, Chili and Mint

And all of a sudden it’s spring. I had been wondering how it would happen here – or if it would at all. Because what I’m used to, spending most of my adult life in places buried under snow for at least four months out of the year, is a spring that comes on so [...]

Rhubarb Eton Mess

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England has a bad reputation for two things. Can you guess? I’m sure you can. The first would be its weather, by which I can more specifically say, the rain. The second, its food – for which there is no specific: all of it, according to most, is bad.  England is a rainy miserable country [...]

Elderflower Pots de Crème with Rhubarb Compote

As June dissolves away into the first humid and hot days of July, the elder flowers start to bloom. They are everywhere. Along every roadside, looking up from every moist ditch, surrounding the borders of every pond and every lake. Everywhere. Cloud like sprays of cream-colored blossoms ablaze in the strong summer sunshine, filling the [...]