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Hot hot hot Sri Lankan egg curry because I have a cold! With a raita type thing and coconut & lime rice. And a naan.

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Bucatini with green goddess. Extra roché of crème fraîche on top for good measure x

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Dream tuna sandwich for lunch

Foccacia that someone at work gave me, warmed up a little in the oven. Tuna mayonnaise with lots of olive oil & lime juice. Green goddess dressing I blitzed up with tonnes of herbs, avocado, lime, garlic & creme fraiche. And little gem lettuce.

Yay!

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Gigli alla Norma with a green salad, tartly dressed with lots of sherry vinegar and dijon mustard

My ideal way of eating on a free evening during the week

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bucatini alla norma

comfort food for a sunday hiding away from the world

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Leading a wine tasting this evening, this section was about the visible variation in colour between bottles of Burgundy from 2009 - the Cotes de Auxerre 'Biaumont' 2009, Domaine Goisot - that comes from the mysterious effects of microoxidisation as a bottle ages under cork.

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Something in between Sichuan style aubergines and a take on Mabonasu (which itself is a japanese interpretation of mapotofu with aubergine) the primary difference being that I steamed the aubergines in a bamboo steamer rather than deep frying.

Served with beautiful hot short grain rice and a cucumber and sesame dish I've been making a lot recently. And a boiled egg not pictured

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vaguely Sichuan peanut noodles with seaweed powder on top

cucumber with whipped silken tofu sauce and (good) chilli oil

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Yesterday while the sun still shone going again with the last of the chilled cucumber and tahini soup, this time with sweet potato vermicelli

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coming to the close of a heatwave which has been intense and overwhelming for me in many ways - more on that later - it was a hot day for cold soup

naengmyeon inspired chilled cucumber and sesame soup with soba noodles, my wild garlic kimchi, radish, (importantly) ice cubes etc etc

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fish fragrant aubergine & a Xi'an style salad of cucumbers and seasoned sesame paste

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It's too hot to cook!

watermelon, feta, aleppo, basil

all I want to be eating on sweltering summer days like this

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dried mushroom congee with my 4 month old wild garlic kimchi, cucumber, egg etc etc

very happy with the wild garlic kimchi. it's very intense, very tangy and the texture of the stems is surprisingly beautiful

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watermelon with feta & basil

needed a bright summery moment to bring me to life on sunday morning

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Dreamy birthday meal at the Kinneuchar Inn in Fife

cumbrae oysters

girolles with polenta and egg yolk

beetroot borani & out of focus burrata with pepperonata

half roast chicken with salmoriglio, chips, green salad & mojo verde

yay

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Couldn't be in Glasgow without going to Gloriosa for lunch x

iconic radishes with taramasalata

globe artichoke with chive butter lovely tactile eating as always

paccheri with pecorino and peas

and the most gorgeous half chicken with tzatziki, potatoes and a sharp & delicately bitter dandelion/wild rocket salad

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tranche of turbot with blanched courgettes soaked in olive oil and lemon juice and roasted hazelnuts

Marnes Blanches cotes du jura 'en levrette' (which apparently means Doggy Style in french) chardonnay 2020

braised fennel, tahini and pink grapefruit

unpictured huge green salad of pea shoots, rocket, various other leaves etc