Cucumber Salad with Peanuts and Cilantro

Okay let’s set the scene. Christmas has been and gone. There are so many glittery decorations all over your house and bits of crumpled up wrapping paper that it looks like Christmas has thrown up in there. You live in a small place anyway but now it starts to feel claustrophobic from all the tinsel hanging down from the ceiling, empty boxes on…

Putting the Whore back in Whore-d’oeuvres

Having cooked all 115 recipes from the first Thug Kitchen cookbook, I moved on to the others. I’m enjoying every minute of it, as I’m sure you can tell. Christmas is a batshit crazy time. Everybody knows it, yet no one really questions it. Everyone is on their ‘Best Behaviour’ during December because the so-called “Santa Claus”…

Sweet Potatoes, Fennel and Smack

Having cooked all 115 recipes from the first Thug Kitchen cookbook within a year I’ve decided to cook all the other recipes too. Just less hectically. In case you didn’t know the reason I named the blog ‘Nature’s Butter, Bitch’  you can see it here. It’s my all time favourite photo quote by Thug Kitchen from back when…