Beetroot, Almonds and Mint

IT’S a long while since I came across a cook book where I wanted to cook virtually everything in the book and it didn’t even belong to me.

I borrowed the new Morito cookbook from my daughter’s kitchen three weeks ago and I still haven’t given it back, I even ordered my very own copy. Morita is the baby sister of Moro, Sam & Samantha’s Clarke’s restaurant in Exmouth Market in London. If you haven’t eaten at Moro put it on your London list right away.

Sam and his lovely wife spent several years cooking in the kitchens at the River Café. In 1997 they opened Moro to cook the food they loved and to introduce their guests to the lesser known flavours of the Mediterranean. They were newly married and had returned from a camper van research trip through Spain, Morocco and the Sahara — an enthusiastic young couple on a mission to discover the tiny details that make food taste authentic and not appear to be cooked by an Anglo Saxon.