Food

by Joan Saunders | photos by Kathryn Alvarez Photography -  This dish had me salivating even before I'd made it. Come on: bacon, prawns, coconut milk and sun-dried tomatoes? These glorious ingredients meld together so wonderfully and, not surprisingly, this recipe has become one of my favourites. What I love about it as well is [...]

by Joan Saunders | photos by Kathryn Alvarez Photography -  Usually for Mother's Day, I cajole my son into baking something with me. He's always been easy to persuade, as the end result is obviously something he's going to be able to eat. However, this year he's left the country, so I don't have my

by Joan Saunders | photos by Kathryn Alvarez Photography -  Dutch Babies are currently one of my new favourite recipes, even if they do have a very unusual name. You might expect this winning hybrid of pancake and Yorkshire pudding to hail from Europe, but apparently it was developed in Seattle, at the now-defunct Manca's

by Joan Saunders | photos by Kathryn Alvarez Photography -  Cooking and baking, for me, is sometimes an interesting, not always successful, experiment – I like to try out new dishes and new techniques, so I'm not continually wallowing in a recipe rut (as has often been known to happen). I also write any resulting