Last year, we ran a few classes to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mamta’s Kitchen. We’ve just noticed the site has recently passed the 10,000,000 hits mark and this has nudged us into scheduling some more dates, as we’ve been promising for a while. Dates: Sunday 5th August Saturday 8th September Time: 11.30 am to ... Read more »
Food at 52 Moves to Number 96: Flavours of Italy Reviewed
A couple of years ago I was invited to a brand PR event hosted in a beautiful cookery school called Food at 52. Classes were run in the family home of John and Emily, located in a residential neighbourhood of Clerkenwell. The classic Georgian exterior masked an absolutely striking modern interior, decorated in a wonderfully ... Read more »
All Star Chilli Con Carne
A few weeks ago, I was invited to All Star Lanes in Westfield Stratford to learn executive chef Steve Collins’ chilli con carne recipe and a few cocktails from mixologist Adam Seidman. The master classes were filmed as part of some new promotional material for Westfield Stratford’s website, though thankfully I’m only visible briefly! ... Read more »
Mamta’s Kitchen Cookery Class – Pescetarian, Vegetarian or…?
In our previous Mamta’s Kitchen cookery classes we’ve made a selection of meat, fish and vegetarian dishes which proved very popular with our students so far. For our next class we are considering offering a pescetarian or fully vegetarian class instead. This will depend on demand. The date has tentatively been scheduled for the 5th ... Read more »
Ice Cream Wednesday: Jean-Christophe Novelli’s Summer Baked Alaska
Two Wednesdays ago, Pete and I enjoyed a wonderful afternoon at the Novelli Academy, the Cookery School run by handsome French chef Jean-Christophe Novelli. Located in Tea Green, a small village on the outskirts of Luton, not far from the airport, the Academy is located in a beautiful 14th century farmhouse where Novelli also lives ... Read more »
Pickled Rock Samphire & Pork Rillettes + Rules For Foraging Safely & Responsibly
There’s something deeply satisfying about making a meal of ingredients foraged directly from the earth, not by some faceless stranger who’s sold his lucrative hedgerow hoard to a restaurant chef, but by your own hands. Common mallow Of course, there’s the thrifty delight in a free meal. £3 for a bundle of asparagus or marsh ... Read more »
Mamta’s Kitchen Cookery Class II
In May, we ran the first Mamta’s Kitchen cookery class, teaching three eager students more than 14 different recipes during a long but successful day. That class was to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mamta’s Kitchen , and also the milestone of over 7 million visits. And we donated over £200 to the Khushboo Welfare ... Read more »
A Success! Mamta’s Kitchen Inaugural Cookery Class
On Saturday 14th May, Mamta’s Kitchen celebrated it’s 10th anniversary by holding our first ever cookery class! In those 10 years, the site has had over 7 million visitors from international visitors keen to investigate over 1,400 recipes contributed by Mamta, family and friends and readers. Three intrepid food lovers attended the day, held at ... Read more »
Learning To Make Pasta With Recipe for Basic Fresh Egg Pasta Dough
I have a confession. Until a couple of months ago, I had never made pasta. Not once! So when I was invited by Hubbub to attend a pasta and risotto course run by Anna Colquhoun, the Culinary Anthropologist, I was delighted. Anna is living the dream many hobby food lovers harbour. She gave up a ... Read more »
Baking Bread with Master Baker Tom Herbert of Hobbs House Bakery
I love bread. There’s no need to elaborate on that, is there really? Because, I’m sure that most of you, if not quite all, feel the same. But I’m going to anyway! Bread is a glorious thing. Freshly baked, with some salty butter and homemade jam. Bursting with delicious fillings of all kinds. Toasted and ... Read more »
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The Place of Onions, in old Lille
The Place of Onions, in old Lille. After last night’s rainstorm the intense sticky heat has broken and today is cool, breezy, fresh… I love it! A drop of… [more]
We went to Star Wars
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