• * I have been posting a lot about pancakes recently, but who can resist these poppyseed darlings on 101 Cookbooks? They look delicious! There are instructions for both dessert or savoury versions.
  • * Travel blog The Window Seat has a guide on how to eat like a local, wherever you are in the world. Not surprisingly, it talks a lot about farmers’ markets - and here is Ivy at Kopiaste’s description of her local farmers’ market in Athens.
  • * I gave my recipe for spinach pie earlier in the week. Here’s Rose’s recipe at You Say Tomahto, I Say Tomayto - she has used puff pastry, only 100g of spinach, and ricotta, while I used filo, a whole bunch of chard, and both feta and cottage cheese, so the result would be very different, but I’m sure no less delicious. Rose, who is part Maltese, calls her version “Maltese spinach pie”. I’ve called mine “Greek” (though I’m not Greek), but really variations on this recipe can be found all over the eastern Mediterranean - my friend Tamara from Sydney makes the same dish and calls it “Bosnian pie”.
  • * I’m loving the increased coverage of food and drink in Time Out London. This week the mag takes lessons on how to make macaroons from the pastry chef at Soho tearoom Yauatcha and shares the recipe.