Rachel in the kitchen

I’m a thirty something home cook in Newcastle up in the North East of England.  I love to eat and I love to feed people.

I’ve been working in the service industry for over ten years, hanging out in professional kitchens bugging and interrogating the chefs.  Turns out, if you annoy folks with genuine interest and enthusiasm for long enough they take you under their wing.

We have a very small kitchen, but that’s okay.  It does everything I demand of it.  It isn’t special, it has very few modern gadgets.  We don’t even have a microwave, just a gas hob and a fan oven.  I stole my mother’s old Kenwood mixer about seven years ago and refuse to return it.

I don’t have a lot of time so I don’t cook lengthy recipes but I do love really good interesting food so I’ve had to work a way around it all.  If that’s you too then come follow me, we can do all this together!