18/01/2026
2016. what an amazing year. ✨
i’ve realised this account is ten years old now and honestly… how did that happen?
it started because i needed something creative that wasn’t drawing. art school drained the life out of me. i came out feeling flat, depressed, and quietly embarrassed for loving portrait and landscape when everyone else was being performative and abstract.
i always knew i wanted to be in food. so i just… started.
an instagram account to document what i ate each day, recipes i cooked for friends on drunk nights so they could remake them later. no plan. no strategy. just instinct.
2016 was the year of new beginnings.
I got engaged to calum, who I have been with since I was 16, we were 23 and thought we knew everything.
we got our first two kittens. paddy (my pookie 🤍 who died last year) and toulouse, who is still very much here.
there were questionable hairstyles, black chokers, and filters so severe you barely looked human.
i travelled more than ever. greece. amsterdam. ireland.
and somewhere between all of that, i knew ....quietly, clearly, that food was where i belonged.
ten years later, i’m still here...still cooking..... still telling stories.
and i’m so glad i started.
#2016❤️
