This post would perhaps be better entitled the triumph of hope over experience. It is mid-March and snow is whirling outside my window. This morning Rene Redzepi tweeted a picture of snow covered patio chairs and announced spring had come to Copenhagen. Up in Aarhus we are on snow warnings so severe there are threats […]
This is a recipe from Darina Allen’s ‘Forgotten Skills of Cooking’ which she advises to make when you have a ‘glut of onions’. I’m not really sure when you would find yourself with a glut of onions, I certainly never have, but did have a glut of leftover cooking red wine (an equally rare occurence) […]
This is a very simple multipurpose dish adapted from a Ballymaloe recipe. Mushrooms, like everything else I once hated, then grew to tolerate, have now become an addiction and a fairly constant part of my diet. This is cheap, relatively healthy (I tend to use half fat crème fraiche) and very tasty. It can be […]
I have never been a huge fan of brunch. It combines two things I have never been particularly fond of – getting out of bed before 11am and eggs. I am not really sure why it has universally been decided that every savoury dish on a brunch menu should involve a variety of cooked eggs […]
Foraging seems to have come into the culinary mainstream these days, but living in Central London I have had little scope to engage in one of the few positive developments of the recession zeitgeist. Wild garlic is the one exception to this, due to it being more or less a weed that tends to take […]
This is a useful Christmas recipe which I swiped and adapted from the Guardian Food section last Christmas, and kept meaning to post. There are no photos, because A) You try taking a nice photo of gravy and B) I was cooking Christmas dinner for 12 people (3 vegetarians, 1 kosher) in a large room […]
This is quite an old school recipe (17th Century according to Wikipedia) but a very multipurpose one. I have spent most of my life hating mushrooms as the things people keep adding unnecessarily to other food I like (risotto, steak, pasta) but have suddenly become converted and addicted to them. This has been happening a […]
This sauce is one which my father has been cooking for family Sunday dinners my whole life, and is my favourite accompaniment to lamb. It is originally a Nico Ladenis recipe.It is not, despite the title, very pungently garlicky, rather it has the sweet, vaguer taste of roasted garlic (despite not utilising it). I recently […]
I have, in fairness, only celebrated Cinco de Mayo once. And by celebrated, I mean I spent 93% of the celebration hiding in the bathroom of a Mexican restaurant in Melbourne which had inexplicably decided to celebrate by passing snakes and lizards out among the diners. I cannot be dealing with snakes. Especially in Australia. […]
Having a bit of a sauce/dip theme at the moment. The weather was so incredibly lovely in London today, all sunshine and blue skies, that I am pre-emptively feeling like it’s Summer, and with Summer comes the inevitable barbecues. I am also somewhat inspired to cook more middle-eastern food now that I live near many, […]
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