Caravan’s Miles Kirby battles tea-towel towers in pursuit of a clutter-free cooking space ... to make these chocolate butter cookies
We redid our kitchen about two years ago, when my partner, René, was pregnant with Marlon. The building work wrapped up the day before we got back from the hospital with him. We somehow always seem to do that – we didn’t have a working bathroom when we got back from the hospital with our eldest, Eli; not a great idea with a newborn … The house is an east London terrace with an alley down the side. We pushed out a metre to the side, and extended at the back. In the summertime, the doors on to the yard are open the whole time – it’s a real antipodean thing I guess. I love that I can see all the way from the front door out into the back garden. And I love that the kids can run around while we’re working in the kitchen.
It’s really important to me to include my kids in the kitchen, and to build up a food culture for them: a celebration of eating together. We try to do pasta Sundays – we make the dough together and roll it out, then eat it together with friends. They really love it.
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