For your pleasure, here is Jassy's account of her recent foodie tour of Venice: bridges and sighs, bigoli and cicchetti, echoing mazes and marriage proposals from fishmongers... A city of bridges and sighs, Venice is also home to the note. Taped to walls and windows, and written in underlined, over exclamation ... Read More...
About Author Profile: Jassy Davis
Warning: this recipe contains Father Brown spoilers... One of the best things I watched this year (and it will remain one of the best things I watch all year) was The Daughters of Jerusalem, one of the Father Brown mysteries brought to life in non-specific period glory by the BBC. I’m ... Read More...
Jassy's bibliophilic lusts lead her to go Dutch... Of all the vices that spatter my soul, like toothpaste across a mirror, buying secondhand cookbooks is the one I find the hardest to give up. It might not seem that terrible a habit to you. Noble even – the pursuit of knowledge ... Read More...
Go on a diet in January? Terrible idea! Jassy serves up a winter treat... The trouble with having curly hair is that I wake up most mornings looking like a bichon frisé that’s licked a socket. I have a halo of brambles that neither comb, mousse or hairspray can control. This Medusan tangle is ... Read More...
Got some horrible old milk in your fridge? Just turn it into something lovely!... There’s something smugly pleasing about turning an inedible lump of food waste that was destined for the bin into a slab of tasty sponge cake. Albeit, only smugly pleasing if I ignore the fact that I allowed ... Read More...
Today we're delighted to welcome top foodie blogger Jassy Davis back to The Dabbler. Here she makes a breakfast that's not for the easily flustered... A favourite pastime when I was growing up was driving around the new estates erupting like boils along the A3 and touring the show homes. Boxy ... Read More...
In case you missed it last year, here's Jassy's Easter recipe... There were two high points to my Easter Sundays when I was a child. First, waking up to find that the Easter Bunny had indeed come a-hopping and left me a chocolate egg at the bottom of my bed. The ... Read More...
Do innards, entrails and other wobbly bits still have a place in the kitchen? Jassy Davis thinks so and starts our series of offal recipes with a dish of baked livers and mash... Offal isn’t everybody’s bucket of entrails. Some people’s eyes light up at the prospect of piling their plate ... Read More...
For those who missed it last year, here's Jassy's attempt at a Christmas Mission Impossible: making sprouts edible... Is there a more painful Christmas ritual than the annual passing round of the Brussels sprouts, accompanied by the traditional chant: “You have to take at least one, you have to take at least ... Read More...
This seasonal gem from Jassy was so popular last year that we thought we'd better repeat it for Dabbler newbies. And next week we've got her extraordinary recipe that makes sprouts actually edible... The Christmas tree is up, half the Advent calendar doors stand gaping and the presents are a mess ... Read More...
