A simple tzatziki recipe using Greek yoghurt, grated cucumber, garlic, mint and dill for a fresh Greek dip you can make at home.
Nicole
Nicole wrote for the Oishya Journal from 2017 to 2021: recipes, Japanese food culture and the early knife guides.
Easy Pancakes
An easy pancake recipe using flour, milk, egg and butter, cooked until golden and served sweet or savoury with your choice of toppings.
Mango Coconut Chicken Curry
A creamy mango coconut chicken curry recipe pairing sweet mango with chicken, yellow curry powder, ginger and coconut milk, served over rice.
Eggs Benedict
An eggs Benedict recipe with poached eggs, parma ham and homemade hollandaise, served on from-scratch English muffins for a proper brunch at home.
Eggplant Parmigiana
A classic eggplant parmigiana recipe layering fried aubergine with tomato passata, basil, parmesan and mozzarella, baked until golden and bubbling.
Summer Rolls w/ Peanut Sauce
A fresh summer rolls recipe with rice paper, vermicelli, shrimp and crisp veg, served with a quick peanut sauce. Easily made vegetarian or with pork.
Caramelised Onion Chutney
A sweet and sticky caramelised onion chutney recipe that makes one litre, ideal alongside any cheeseboard, and keeps for six to twelve months.
What Is Oak Bog Wood?
The wood on every Sakai Kyuba handle sat in a peat bog for 2,500 years, darkening and hardening since before Rome. Here’s how bog oak forms.
Guacamole
A simple guacamole recipe using fresh avocado, lime, tomato, onion and coriander, with optional peperoncino and cumin, ready in just a few steps.
Everything You Need To Know Before Throwing A Cooking Party
How to plan and host a cooking party, covering the guest list, dietary needs and choosing an appetiser, main and dessert your guests will cook together.
Homemade Granola
A simple homemade granola recipe with rolled oats, nuts, coconut oil and honey, plus baking and storage tips for clumpy, golden clusters.
Best Father’s Day Gifts Cooking Dads
Skip the knife block for a magnetic strip, add a mortar for his spice blends: ten gift ideas for the dad who actually cooks.
Kitchen Knife Set Or Individual Knives – What’s Better To Start With?
Why own a meat-carving knife if you’re vegetarian? Weighing a tidy knife set against buying only the two or three blades you’ll actually use.
How to Kintsugi: 3 Step DIY Tutorial
Broken a favourite mug? Mend it with gold instead of hiding the crack. Three steps with the Minowa kit, from fitting the pieces to the final join.
The Ultimate Guide to Japanese Knives: Finding Your Perfect Blade
A guide to choosing a Japanese knife, covering how to match a blade to your cooking needs and the main types, starting with the all-purpose Gyuto.
beauty: homemade masks
Homemade face masks for wrinkles and blackheads using yoghurt, honey, coconut oil, lemon, citrus and egg white with aloe, plus moisturising advice.
Can Cooking Benefit Your Mental Health?
Five ways home cooking supports your mental health, from a sense of accomplishment and creative expression to building patience and connecting with others.
Ideas For Celebrating Big Occasions At Home
Five ways to celebrate birthdays and milestones at home during lockdown, including video call parties, drive-by parades and booking an online experience.
How To Overcome Cooking Fatigue
Seven ways to beat cooking fatigue during lockdown, from online cooking classes and YouTube tutorials to recording family recipes and buying better tools.
12 Cooking Tips You’d Wish You Learnt Sooner
Preheat the pan and your roast veg never need flipping. Twelve small habits like that, including an egg-yolk wash and a warm knife for cake.
Valentine’s Day Ideas For Quarantine
Cook the same meal over Zoom, build a blanket-fort cinema, or graze a charcuterie board all day: ten ways to spend Valentine’s at home.
How To Find Your Ikigai
What ikigai means and how to find yours by listing your values, what you enjoy and what you do well, then living where the three overlap.
Knife Hacks For Perfect Cutting
Five knife hacks for cleaner cutting, using the spine to scoop food, matching the knife to the task, and pinching the blade for control.
Cooking steak like a pro (and mistakes you should avoid)
How to cook steak well and the mistakes that ruin it, from underseasoning and stabbing the meat to forgetting how thick a steak should be.
Wooden Handles: Maple Burl
What turns soft maple into a handle that shrugs off water? Resin forced deep under pressure, leaving the burl dense, tough and waterproof.
Best Way To Store Kitchen Knives Around Children
The safest way to store kitchen knives with children around, weighing drawers, knife blocks and wall-mounted magnetic strips on safety and care.
How To Organise Your Fridge: Zero Waste
Best-before is a suggestion; expiry is the one to obey, and leftovers go after four days. A step-by-step fridge reset that cuts food waste.
How to Host An Unforgettable Dinner Party
A practical timeline for hosting a dinner party, from the guest list two weeks out to lighting candles and pouring water before guests arrive.
How To Cut Onions Without Crying
Why onions make you cry comes down to a sulphur compound that turns to acid near your eyes, plus tricks like a fan, freezing and cutting the root.
12 Things Every Home Cook Should Have In Their Kitchen
Twelve kitchen tools worth owning, starting with two good knives and a sharpening stone, then a wooden spoon, scissors, pans and a saucepan.