Skate with Preserved Lemon & Green Olives

Fish scares me. There I've said it. Well, that's not entirely true. I love seafood. Give me some cajun grilled calamari, a platter of sashimi (spicy tuna = mama mia!) or good old fish and chips, glistening with vinegar and I'm as happy as can be. But prepping fish myself? At home? Hmm. It's a bit scary.

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Marrakech Lentils

Sometimes we need to atone for our sins. Perhaps you spent a weekend bending your plastic with some serious shopping, inhaled an inordinate amount of the alcohol variety, spent the better part of your Sunday in a horizontal position watching The Office or consumed your body weight in vanilla crunch ice cream. I may or may not have indulged in most of these activities over the past two days. If you follow my tweets, you probably have a pretty good idea of what went down this weekend.

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Daring Cooks - Mezze

People adopt smug smiles for various reasons. Maybe you know something that no-one else does. A juicy secret definitely ups the smug factor (or at least it does for me!) Smug smiles can also be caused by the knowledge that you are somewhat (in some way at least) superior to someone else.

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