Marielle Vensora 
Image credit: @roseau_tourism / Instagram This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission if you book through them, at no extra cost to you. The playlist is ready. The bags somehow fit. Then, an hour into the drive, someone starts looking for something to eat. The snacks, unfortunately, are underneath a suitcase. Or … Read more
Image credit: @hopefulfoodfinds / Instagram This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission if you book through them, at no extra cost to you. Somewhere between leaving the driveway and the next rest stop, somebody gets hungry. Lunch is still an hour away, the bananas are underneath a backpack, and nobody particularly wants … Read more
Image credit: @_mamas_meals / Instagram This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission if you book through them, at no extra cost to you. Hunger tends to arrive at the least convenient point in a journey: just as boarding starts, halfway through a traffic jam, or ten minutes after you pass the last … Read more
Today has seen fourteen job applications go in, painstakingly typed on this Jurassic mobile phone, for care work, shop work, factory work, minimum wage work, any kind of work, because quite simply, this doesn’t work. For reasons unbeknownst to me, this month my Housing Benefit was over £100 short. I didn’t get a letter that … Read more
Last night I had the pleasure of meeting Billy from the socialist rhythm and blues band Thee Faction, described in their own words as ‘blistering, unpleasant, socialist RnB’ and by the Guardian as ‘bringing down the Tories, one song at a time’. To say I was nervous about meeting an explicitly political band that don’t … Read more
First published in the New Statesman on 20 October 2015. “URGENT: Legal warning: Jack Monroe has requested you do not publish her birth name (*******) in the future.” I love a Google alert. That particular nugget of joy pinged into my inbox courtesy of political gossip blogger “Guido Fawkes”, less than an hour after lawyers … Read more
Think you can’t make bread? Or that you need a fancy pants bread maker to do so? RUBBISH. You have a natural, free bread maker in your palms and your knuckles – and this easy recipe with no proving or rising time is a great place to start. A lot of soda bread recipes use … Read more
Well this is the first of my tinkering with 32p jars of fish paste – and I have to say I am seriously impressed! This speedy fish supper takes just minutes to put together, and tastes absolutely divine. The sharpness of the lemon brings out the salmon flavour in the paste, and the yoghurt lends … Read more
These are my sad black bananas. I wanted to make them happy again, by making them into supercake. What do you do when you have a pile of black bananas sitting in the fruit bowl? I don’t even know how this happens – I generally work from home, bananas are my go-to snack because I … Read more
Butter beans simmer in a tomato sauce flavoured with cinnamon, lemon and basil. This version is cooked on the hob. Serves 4 Ingredients 100g dried butter beans 1 carton chopped tomatoes 1 onion 1 garlic clove A pinch of ground cinnamon A splash of lemon juice 1 vegetable stock cube Basil, plus extra to finish … Read more