When I’m not developing recipes for others, writing blogs or cooking for the lovely Mr G, this is wha

Baker & Foodie Content Creator

Hi.

My name is Lee, welcome to my pages. I hope we can have fun together?

When I’m not developing recipes for others, writing guest blogs, writing my own blog, or even trying to learn how to paint, I’m usually spending time with the amazing Mr G (my husband) or with my lovely daughter or my lovely son (very proud mum).

What is this all about? Great question. This site is about real cooking and baking, real recipes and real mistakes.

No filters here, (although i’d love to find a filter that can take ten years worth of laugh lines away. Just me, whats happening, and whatever cameras or phone i have to hand .

There are many things that get under my bonnet and wiggle around, one of those is food waste. If i buy ingredients specifically for a recipe, and i only need a small amount of the ingredients, i want to be able to use the rest up and not have to throw them away. My mum used to say , “Waste not Want not” is that still a saying ?

For me, waste is not just about using up all the ingredients. What about leftover food? If i’m able , i hope to give ideas as to how to use up any leftovers too.

Be Brave

Cooking isn’t hard , neither is baking, its all about being brave and being ok with making mistakes

Gilly Smith - Banjaaan Borani

Gilly Smith - Banjaaan Borani

Lee Majhen-Todd

Gilly Smith 

Gilly Smith

Gilly Smith

I’d tell you about this weeks live cook, Gilly Smith.but she can do a much better job than me in her own words.

Gilly Smith is a food writer and podcaster. She is the presenter of her own podcast, Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith, the delicious. podcast, Leon’s How to Eat to Save the Planet, the Borough Market Podcast and The Write Songs.  She produces The Food Foundation’s Right2Food podcast and Compassion in World Farming’s The Big Table with Philip Lymbery

Initially a radio and TV producer (including GLR’s first on-air restaurant reviews with Nigel Barden, and Food File on Channel 4), she has written many books, mainly about the influence of culture of food in its various forms. They include biographies of Nigella and Jamie Oliver and Australia: new Food from the New World, the story of Australian food culture through interviews with its top chefs.

Her 2020 book, Taste and the TV Chef featuring hundreds of interviews with TV chefs and their producers, won a Gourmand Award for best UK food writer and has been shortlisted for the Best in the World.  Her latest book, How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast and its accompanying podcast How to Grow a Pod feature interviews with the pioneers in podcasting from Ira Glass to George the Poet.

Food journalist and podcaster

UK winner of 2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Best Food Writing for Taste and the TV Chef (Intellect Books). Shortlisted for Best in the World

New book: How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast (Little, Brown)
Member of the The Guild of Food Writers

Cooking the Books

How to Grow a Pod
Right2Food 
The delicious.podcast
Leon’s How to Eat to Save the Planet

@foodgillysmith : Instagram
@gillysmith: Twitter
07930 400805

www.gillysmith.com

The recipe?

Banjaaan Borani

It’s unusual that there isn’t a written recipe here for you to check out, thats because Gilly is showcasing a recipe from a book she’s chatting about on her podcast - find the link in Gilly’s bio.

You’ll find the recipe on the CKBK site for limited free access to the recipe Gilly cooked for us using this link:
https://app.ckbk.com/recipe/parw24357c04s001r001/braised-eggplant-with-yoghurt-dressing?code=COOKINGTHEBOOKS&aff=41

Not heard of CKBK before? Here’s your’e chance to find out all about it and maybe give it a trial run for a couple of months!

CKBK is a place to “....search through over 400 cookbooks from hundreds of trusted chefs and authors Find new recipes, polish your technical skills, and discover the history, culture and science behind your favorite dishes.”

Sounds good to me.





 

 

 

 

 

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