Okay, I’ll be honest with you. Sometimes I’m a lazy cook. There are just some nights where I want to eat nice food without spending hours slaving away over every last little detail. Especially when there’s baking involved. So when, on Monday, I decided I wanted a goat’s cheese and caramelised onion tartlet without the…
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HDL COOKS: Refried Bean Quesadillas with Pico de Gallo
I make a lot of vegetarian food. In fact, at the time of posting, I don’t think I’ve ever written a meat recipe for this blog before. The thing about vegetarian food, you see, is that it’s often cheaper to make, faster to cook, and way less risky to reheat the leftovers of for the…
HDL COOKS: Pasta Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes and Basil
Oh pasta. Mender of broken hearts, filler of empty tummies, staple of many a student kitchen. I was an unfortunate latecomer to the pasta fanatic club (all thanks to my mother, who refused to have it in the house because she associates it with poverty…), but now I am here, sat with a dish of…
HDL REVIEWS: Cosmo, Southampton Westquay
If you’re a lifelong Soton resident like me, you’ll know that any changes on the horizons of the city are usually useless and underwhelming. In a place that is attracting and accommodating more and more people, changes are inevitable. Promises of an ice rink disappear like smoke, cries of ‘do we really need a new…
HDL COOKS: Leek & Potato Soup
Soup is the ultimate winter comfort food, when it’s grey and drizzly outside and you just want to curl up under a blanket and fill your body with wholesome warmth. You can make basically anything into soup, and there are so many different varieties even within the same groups of flavours. Do you prefer a…
HDL Does Christmas
Despite my role amongst my friends being a year-round scrooge, I actually quite like Christmas in all its glittering, materialistic glory. I am not even slightly Christian, and while the key message of the Christmas season is not lost on me, I don’t feel particularly bad about celebrating a holiday that doesn’t quite belong to…
Happy Anniversary!
This is a slightly belated post, because I’m an imperfect person and I struggle with deadlines, but last Friday it was the five year anniversary of my relationship with Fahad. Those who know me will know that Fahad is, and has been, my complete best friend for the duration of those five years, and I…
HDL COOKS: Strawberry Avocado Babyleaf Salad
Something not many people know about me is how much I love a good salad. They range from refreshing to hearty and can combine almost any ingredients to make a healthy lunch or side dish. Something I’ve found, though, is that eating substantial salads on a student budget can prove to be pretty lacklustre –…
Christmas 2014 – Disneyland Paris and more!
So now Christmas has been and gone, it’s time to talk about what the festive season has been like for me this year. It seems that Christmas really did creep up on me this year, and despite buying and making present lists far in advance, I still found myself rushing around to get everything done.The…
Recipe: Chana Masala (Chickpea Curry)
Everyone who knows me in person knows that this curry recipe is kind of my thing. I have made it on a bi-weekly basis, without fail, since my mid teens. The recipe has differed slightly over the years, usually depending on what ingredients we have to hand, but the backbone of the dish has remained…
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