fruit

strawberry soda

I made a strawberry soda because I knew it would be freaking delicious, but also because store-bought flavoured sodas can sometimes taste like, um, scratch-'n'-sniff stickers, not fruit.

grilled onigiri in a green tea broth

(Ochazuke with Yaki-Onigiri) If you’ve never eaten plum onigiri in ochazuke this might seem like an odd grouping of flavours. And words. Some ingredients here are  mild, some punchy, salty, sweet but the overall result is a warm, soothing dish–in texture...

mango salad with hazelnut and lime dressing

My little cousins (well, they’re really my cousins’ kids) are strange. I think. This is not the kind of salad I’d expect them to like, and in fact, I warned them against it because of the red bird chili sprinkled...

blue-grey semifreddo

I’ve been shut out of the homemade ice cream party for too long, and I’ve been a little bitter about...

curried jackfruit

Doesn't this look like curried beef or goat? Jackfruit is the meatiest non-meat food you will come across.

mango chutney

This is my grandmother's recipe, a chutney is bright, sticky, mid-afternoon tropical sunshine in a jar.