Food

Beetroot Soup with Swede and Potato Latkes and Fennel Yoghurt

Liquids • Savoury • Starters • Vegetarian

The perfect Autumn dish this will warm your soul and energise your body. Fennel leaves can be hard to come by but Dill tastes just as good. I like my Latkes to be a bit irregular and freeform (I find you get more of those delicious crispy edges) but if it isn’t your thing just use a metal ring to shape them in the pan.

 

1

Soup

  1. Preheat the oven to 150°C.
  2. Peel and quarter the Beetroots and place them in a roasting pan with Olive oil, Salt and Pepper
  3. Roast for 30mins.
  4. Scrape the roasting pan contents into a food processor and blitz with Milk, Stock, Water and Butter.
2

Potato and Swede Latkes

  1.  Peel the Swede and Potatoes, then shred them into a bowl of cold water.
  2. Finely chop the Shallots.
  3. Drain the Potato and Swede mix, and squeeze out access water, then combine with Shallots and Rice Flour.
  4. Heat Sunflower Oil in a frying pan over a medium heat and shallow fry handfuls of the mix, use a spatular to press the mix down. They will be golden brown on the edges when cooked. You should be able to fit about three is a pan.
  5. At this stage, if needed you can place the Latkes in the oven to keep warm.
3

Fennel Yoghurt

  1. Chop your Herbs and then combine with the Yoghurt and Salt.
Conde Nast Traveller

I’m so delighted to be a new contributor for Conde Nast Traveller! I actually covered this recipe along with where I buy my produce in London. You can see the piece here. Although for these photographs this recipe was cooked with our own garden produce.

Photos by Peony Lim
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Fashion

Velvet LFW SS15

Fashion Week • LFW

I wear this velvet blazer as a cardigan substitute. The velvet is really soft and light so you can just though it on. I’ve thought about buying another in a different colour but it seems silly (I’m sure I can talk myself into it though). You might remember I wore it last winter a lot too. My friends thought this outfit was really out of fashion-week-character for me, but sometimes you have to be laid back because its how you feel, not every day can be a dress up day or it becomes boring.

Shoes Manolo Blahnik

Jeans Citizens of Humanity (gifted)

Shirt Zara

Blazer Poetry

Scarf Londali (gifted)

Hat Zara

Bag Celine

Sunglasses ASOS

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Photos by Kit Lee
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Lifestyle

DIY Marble Tray Project

DIY • Home Tutorials
Like my DIY Marble Box Project this one is super easy and really effective. I did both in an afternoon so its a perfect weekend project.
1

Cut the Marble

  1. Cut off enough self-adesive Marble wallpaper to just over cover both sides of the tray.
  2. Peel back the paper backing to show the sticky side and place the tray about 1/4 of an inch off the edge.
  3. Using your cloth, rub the paper onto the tray little by little to stop it from bubbling with air pockets.
  4. You should now have covered one side of the tray.
2

Top Corners

  1. Pull the edges towards the corner so that it is flush on the flat sides and the spare creases are all on the corners.
  2. Take your craft knife and cut three lines into the paper on a slight angle of each corner.
  3. Pull these slits so that they stick to the tray, lapping over each other and creating a smooth finish.
  4. Rub over the top with your duster to smooth off.
3

Turn over the tray

  1. Turn the tray over and fold over the open edge, from the middle out.
  2. Trim the edges with scissors and fold them over too.
  3. Taking the scissors cut open the corner edges too and fold them over to complete the corner.
  4. Smooth over with the duster again.
4

Finish Off

  1. Cover the back of the tray with the Marble again using the duster cloth to smooth out any air pockets as you go.
  2. When you get to the corner repeat the process of cutting three slits with your craft knife, and folding the paper over each other to make a smooth, flush edge.
  3. Trim off any excess with your craft knife and give the whole tray a really good rub with the duster to finish.
Top Tip

I have used the marble paper to cover two trays and a box now. (All in the below photo). The most important thing to bare in mind when your choosing an object to cover is that you want it to look as realistic as possible so what would believably be marble.

Photos by Kit Lee
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