Probably heretical adding broad beans to a carbonara let alone making it with fusilli, one of the few shapes that are not mentioned as an alternative to spaghetti in @rachelaliceroddy’s wonderful A-Z of pasta but I’m putting broad beans in everything I can while they’re in season and it worked. As would peas though equally unorthodox. Her sauce is spot on though. No cream obvs. Pecorino rather than Parmesan. Delicious. . . . #carbonara #pasta #fusilli #broadbeans #favabeans #rachelroddy

Negroni sbagliatos to kick off a long overdue first visit to @littlehollowspasta in Bristol last night - the perfect place to eat on a warm summer evening. Lovely food too including this dish of tagliolini with skate and vermouth and cream sauce, agretti with brown shrimp and a Megrim sole with piquillo pepper sauce as a starter. And a lovely bottle of the much underrated Bianco di Custoza. Will be back. #cocktail #negroni #sbagliato #pasta #tagliolini #whitewine #biancodicustoza #eatlocal

Thanks to @jofairley (whose account is well worth following) I caught sight of this brilliant campaign to encourage us to use our indies - or lose them for sure. Bristol has so many great ones I don’t get to enough but I do shop at @regthe_veg every week and @heronbooksbristol more than I probably should cos it’s such a lovely bookshop. @northstreetcheeseshop too. Times are hard but if we all make them at least part of our weekly spend they’ll survive. Their future is in our hands. (Also congrats to @hollytucker who is behind today’s #shopindependentday) . . #shoplocal #campaignshopindependent #shopsmall

It’s @nlborthwick’s ability to do the simple things well that keeps pulling me and my pal @thaneeprince back to @frenchhousesoho. Simply gorgeous cherry clafoutis and a pitch perfect green salad outclassing in their way a beautiful plate of scallop crudo and a splurgeworthy platter of lobster and chips. (T’s belated birthday celebration*) Total bliss. *she’s taking a short break from insta in case you wonder why you haven’t seen her popping up . . . #cherry #clafoutis #dessert #greensalad #frenchhousesoho #lunch with friends

On the moqueca trail again, this time @bossa.mayfair, an upmarket export from Rio de Janeiro. Touch spendy - these 2 crab pasteles were £18 - but I guess that’s Mayfair for you. Really good cooking though and the caipirinhas, including one made from mezcal were 💥💥💥. Fond reminiscences with my Brazil travelling companion @shep310 #guest . . . #brazilianfood #moqueca #caipirinha #mezcal #cocktails #londonrestaurants

Like most Bristolians I regard my home city as infinitely superior to Bath but have to say it was looking its magical best at the weekend. And is there a more romantic place to live than Catharine Place with its wonderful wild garden? Or a more charming quirky restaurant than @landraceupstairs? (Cod’s roe, potatoes, pickled cucumber and boiled egg and peach and almond tart) #smitten . . . #Bath #hollyhocks #citygarden #catharineplace #codsroe #peachtart #landraceupstairs

Bargainous set-price lunch with @nicky_richmond_ @marmo.restaurant - asparagus with smoked cods roe and agretti, burrata with crushed peas and broad beans and malfadine with pesto trapanese and ricotta salata. £22 for 2 courses. Oh, and a delicious strawberry sorbet. Forgot about that …bargain anyway . . . #marmo #bristolfood #setlunch #asparagus #pasta

It’s a long, long time since I’ve been to Queen Mary’s Rose Garden in Regent’s Park and had forgotten just how enchanting it is, especially in this gorgeous sunny weather. Perhaps a week past its peak but still glorious. Head there in the next few days. . . . #rose #rosegarden #regentspark

Moqueca, pāo de quiejo (cheese bread) bean fritters, stuffed crab and palm heart salad from last night’s spectacular Brazilian feast created by my cooking group including @xantheclay @reach_luke @caroline_reachbrands and @barnyhaughton. (Like a book group only we cook together) I suspect we’ll be cooking Brazilian for the rest of the summer. . . . #brazilianfood #moqueca #fishstew #paodequeijo #cheesebread #beanfriiters #crab #salad #cookingwithfriends #cookinggroup

They have empanadas in Galicia too plus an amazing home style monkfish stew cooked in Albariño. At @restaurantecasaboveda #riasbaixas . . . #empanada #tuna #monkfish #albarino #cookingwithwine #homecooking #presstrip

Spectacularly steep vineyards and dramatic skies at @masaveubodegas Bodegas Fillaboa where it was cooler and greyer than in London #greenspain . . . #riasbaixas #albarino #galicia #atlanticwine #vineyards #vines #winestagram #instawine #clouds #stormyskies

Seafood is taken super-seriously in this part of Spain. There are 3 different flavours of crab meat in the shell explained Javi Izurieta of @pazosenorans - the body meat (the sweetest), the leg meat (the most savoury) and the brown meat - the deepest in flavour. But they all went stunningly well with their 2022 albarino, a wine that’s just made for shellfish. . . . #crab #seafood #shellfish #albarino #riasbaixas #winepairing #foodandwine #presstrip