Hello and welcome to howellandharte.com, a new blog from Will Howell and Conor Harte. We live and cook in Clapham, London, and our main goal is to teach others how to eat in a way that is affordable and healthy but, above all, tasty.

Some might ask how this blog is going to differ from anything else that is out there on the endless oceans of the world wide web in a market flooded with opinions, fad diets and never ending lists of super foods (black pudding is the latest food stuff tipped for the top if you haven’t been following ‘food news’ lately). For the most part food blogs look at the latest trends and, simply put, how to stuff yourself rotten or focus on a range of incredibly specific dietary requirements.

This is not our focus, although there will certainly be a number of coeliac friendly and over-indulgent recipes along the way. We want to teach others to approach food in a more thoughtful way rather than settling for compulsive consumption. We want to encourage people to eat seasonally using simple recipes that don’t necessarily require half the kitchen equipment and a plethora of ingredients to make.

We want to encourage people to think about where their food comes from, encouraging people to avoid eating cheap meat every evening and opting for better quality meat, less often. By the same token we also want to show people how to eat more vegetarian meals mid-week.

So with that in mind you can expect to see the following posts over the next few weeks: we will be launching the first of our ‘Shopping Basket’ features, giving you a week’s worth of seasonal recipes from basket to bin giving you a taster of what is to come; we will be working on the first of our vlogs, the macaroni challenge, where we pit our recipe against some of the greats already out there; we will be posting what we think are the various essentials for your kitchen if you are a new cook just starting out; finally, we will be talking to our own circle of cooks to come up with a list of top seasonal dishes for you to work into your own repertoire.

To make sure you don’t miss any of these you can follow us on twitter (@howellandharte) and facebook (Howell&harte). You can also follow our YouTube account ready for our vlog post at the start of February.

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