About Thyme with Niki

A lifetime of recipes, gathered one dish at a time

Thyme with Niki grew from decades of collecting the recipes that were simply too good to forget.

Most were discovered while travelling - from Europe to Africa, from America to Australia and Asia - and usually after ordering something wonderful in a little restaurant and becoming determined to recreate it at home. Others came from cosy pubs, family kitchens, friends' houses, well-used cookery books and handwritten notes passed across the table.

Over the years, those recipes have been cooked, adapted, scribbled on, improved and cooked again. Ingredients have been swapped for things that are easier to find, methods have been made clearer and restaurant dishes have been carefully recreated from memory.

This is where they now live together in one place.

You will find comforting family favourites, dishes inspired by holidays and meals out, reliable recipes for everyday cooking and a few special occasion showstoppers. Each one is here because I genuinely enjoy cooking it, eating it or sharing it with people I love.

There is no test kitchen full of assistants and no expectation of perfection. Just honest food, practical notes and recipes designed to work in a real kitchen.

So pull up a chair, have a browse and hopefully discover something you will want to cook again and again.

Welcome to Thyme with Niki. Make yourself at home.

- Niki Molnar MBE