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A Mediterranean Christmas Table, Made for Long Lunches
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A Mediterranean Christmas Table, Made for Long Lunches

heylollyNovember 1, 2026October 23, 2026

A Christmas table dressed for lingering. Think natural linen, olive branches, beautiful Italian glassware, candlelight and thoughtful details worth bringing out long after December.

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How to Build a Mediterranean Lunch from What’s in the Fridge

heylollyOctober 19, 2026October 16, 2026

A Mediterranean lunch doesn’t need a complicated recipe. Just good olive oil, a few fresh ingredients and a little imagination. Here’s how to turn whatever’s in the fridge into a beautiful, delicious lunch worth sitting down for.

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A Guide to the Best Restaurants in Ortigia, Sicily

heylollyUpdated on October 16, 2026October 15, 2026

Discover the best restaurants in Ortigia, from my favourite Sicilian tables to hidden food stops, atmospheric wine bars and market discoveries. Explore my free recommendations or take the complete 25-page Ortigia Food Edit and interactive restaurant map along for the trip.

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20 Low-Carb Recipes Without the Stodge: The Hey Lolly Low-Carb Edit

heylollyUpdated on October 16, 2026June 14, 2026

New digital recipe edit 20 Low-Carb Recipes for Lighter, Lovelier Meals The Low-Carb Edit is a premium digital recipe collection filled with exclusive, flavour-led low-carb …

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Krakow Food Guide: A Curated Digital Guide for Eating Your Way Through the City

heylollyUpdated on October 16, 2026June 8, 2026

A beautifully curated digital Krakow food guide for travellers who want to eat well without spending hours scrolling, saving and second-guessing.

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October Store Cupboard Staples. Pantry-to-plate, anytime.

heylollyUpdated on October 30, 2025October 30, 2025

The jars and tins I actually cooked with this month: capers + anchovies, coconut milk, white miso, butter beans, dark chocolate and banana-maple PB, my October store-cupboard staples, with links to the recipes.

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Store Cupboard Staples for September. The 5 I Actually Use.

heylollyUpdated on September 22, 2025September 22, 2025

Five store cupboard staples I actually use – Chilli Vinegar, Capers, White Miso, Harissa and Cannellini Beans – plus 60-second formulas to take you from ‘bits’ to dinner, fast.

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June’s Seasonal Superstars: The UK Produce You Should Be Eating Right Now

heylollyUpdated on July 14, 2025June 12, 2025

Let’s talk about seasonal eating, shall we? Not the Instagram-perfect fantasy version where you’re somehow meant to survive on three locally foraged mushrooms and a …

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Time for a little dish & tell. 🍷🥧🐷 Pig’s head, b Time for a little dish & tell. 🍷🥧🐷 

Pig’s head, braised ox cheek… buttery greens. Tell me November’s arrived without telling me November’s arrived.

There’s a lot to love about Winsome. A kitchen in full flight, a dining room with an electric buzz and staff who seem genuinely delighted to have you there.

It’s a rather cool setting for a menu that makes absolutely no concessions. Rich, gutsy British cooking, it will positively encourage you to take a second glass of red and makes the onset of November seem considerably more appealing.

The terrine? Excellent.

The ox cheek pie? Everything you’d hope for beneath that golden crust.

And the madeleines? Well they have been occupying an unreasonable amount of my thoughts ever since… 

A very good reason to be in Manchester. As if one needed another.

📍 Winsome, Manchester
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I have 47 ideas for dinner until somebody actually I have 47 ideas for dinner until somebody actually asks me what I fancy. Then suddenly I’ve never eaten a meal in my life. 🤷‍♀️

Fortunately, past me was considerably more organised and actually wrote a few things down.

So here’s a little inspiration from the Hey Lolly recipe archives. All tried, tested and absolutely worth making again.

Recipes over on heylolly.co.uk 🍋

I’ll still spend twenty minutes deciding, obviously... 

#DinnerInspiration #HomeCookingIdeas #WhatToCookTonight #EasyRecipesatHome #HeyLolly
Another day, another unnecessary amount of burrata Another day, another unnecessary amount of burrata. 💁🏼‍♀️

This time, with cheat’s sun-dried tomatoes (an hour in the oven, considerably less Mediterranean sunshine required), homemade pistachio pesto and a golden, lemony basil crumb.

A little taste of Puglia, courtesy of a British postcode and a fairly enthusiastic approach to olive oil.

Glug generously 😏

#BurrataRecipe #MediterraneanRecipes #SundriedTomatoes #PistachioPesto #HeyLolly
🍂 1 November. We have a peculiar habit of keeping 🍂 1 November.

We have a peculiar habit of keeping things ‘for best’. The beautiful ceramics stay in a cupboard, the linen is saved for guests, and the candlesticks only seem to clock in when December arrives.

I’ve never quite seen the sense in it. An ordinary lunch is as good an occasion as any. And that, broadly speaking, is the spirit of November on Hey Lolly.

There’s going to be a bit more Mediterranean cooking for colder days, quite a lot of butter beans, roasted vegetables and, inevitably, more burrata... 

There will be a few more reviews, alongside some new places and discoveries worth sharing. And since November apparently makes discussing Christmas socially acceptable, I’m turning my attention to the festive table. Think beautiful ceramics, thoughtful little finds and food made for lunches that have absolutely no intention of ending on time.

My Mediterranean Christmas table edit will be published shortly, with plenty more seasonal inspiration to come.

Delicious and easy food to make at home, interesting places to visit and a reminder to stop saving the nice things for special occasions.

The good plates are coming out. 🤎

Lolly x 🕯️

#MediterraneanRecipes #AutumnRecipes #SeasonalCooking #ChristmasTableDecor #HeyLolly
🫒 I thought it was about time I introduced myself 🫒 I thought it was about time I introduced myself properly.

Hello, I'm Lolly. Whether you've just found your way here or you've been following for a while, a very warm welcome.

My granny Sybil (God bless her soul) and my wonderful mum have a lot to answer for. By the age of ten, I had a meticulously organised collection of rollodexed recipes and grand dinner-party ambitions rather beyond my years. Weekends were spent poring over recipes, trying my hand at whatever I could and helping my mum prepare for parties I took every bit as seriously as the grown-ups did. 

These days, food still occupies a considerable amount of my thoughts. I simply love to cook, discovering wonderful restaurants and travelling to places where the food is just as inviting as the scenery.

My cooking has a Mediterranean leaning, although I'm easily distracted by a good ingredient, an interesting menu or something I've eaten on my travels that I can't wait to recreate at home.

Hey Lolly is also my creative outlet, bringing together my love of photography, food styling and writing. I take great pleasure in getting a photograph just right, but finding the words is every bit as satisfying.

I could tell you the pasta was excellent, or insist you try the fish dish I've been making at home. But then I'd want to tell you about the Sicilian market that inspired dinner or the table setting bought back from Tuscany. Food is invariably the starting point, but there's usually a much bigger story unfolding around it. And that's the bit I love putting into words.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you'll find something delicious to cook, somewhere lovely to visit and plenty of reasons to come back.

Lolly 🍋

#FoodBloggerUK #FoodieTravel #HeyLolly #FoodAndTravel #MediterraneanRecipes
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