Hi! I’m Sam, and One Small Kitchen is an evolving collection of simple, real food recipes. It’s the stuff I cook from my small city kitchen. I try to live consciously and cook the same way. Using whole foods. Mostly plants. Learning from traditional wisdom. And trusting my intuition.
I’ve cooked on sailing boats and love to cook for others, but now mostly just cook for my bethrothed and I. I cook intuitively and don’t always follow recipes to the letter. I started this blog in 2010 as a way of recording the oft spontaneous stuff I cook.
So, why ‘One Small Kitchen’? My kitchen is literally small! But this ‘smallness’ also reflects my food ethics. I try to minimise the environmental impacts of my food choices and practices by making do, avoiding excess and re-using or recycling waste. And at the same time, recognising naturally occurring abundance, delighting in simplicity. And eating for wellbeing.
So. Aside from growing (in pots), dreaming about, and making food, I write, and mess around with photography and making things. I love to travel as much as I love staying still. I also have a very un-glamorous life behind a desk. It’s a step on the road to a long-dreamed, self-sufficient, small-farm life.
If you’d like to get in contact, feel free to drop me a line.
Enjoy! x
hey , fantastico !
Already salivating.
Smashing site Sam….makes you want to go home straight away and start cooking
fantastic Sam…. almost as good as having you here to cook!!!
Thanks Cathy! Oh I wish I was there… hopefully one day I’ll have a vegie garden and kitchen half as wonderful as yours!
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What’s with the option to ‘unlike’ on FB? What’s not to like? This is a beautiful site Sam
Oooo,oooo, dear OSK, any good recipes for loads of rocket? Have too much in my garden and need to thin out desperately.
Jodes – thanks! Too much rocket? A problem I’d like to have! Sounds like a pesto in the making?
Hi Sam! I love your web site… so fresh and what wonderful ideas! I’m already going to try your carrot cake. Yum. Your overseas photography is amazing too. Love Chrisite xox
Hi! Just wanted to say a big thank you for this website! I’ve been looking for a place with whole food recipes for so long and I am so excited to find this
It has re-energised my motivation to choose a healthy, whole-food eating lifestyle. I can’t wait to start trying some recipes!