This is a simple comfort food recipe, perfect for a lazy Sunday dinner. It is adapted from my cookbook of the moment, Darina Allen’s ‘Forgotten Skills of Cooking’. I am slightly addicted to tarragon, I add it to just about everything, so a dish where it is the key flavour is my idea of heaven. […]
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 […]
When I was a child, pheasant was always our traditional Christmas dinner, and has remained one of my favourite foods. I’m not sure if is because they are only available for part of the year (I also love jerusalem artichokes, celeriac, and creme eggs) or what, but as soon as I saw them in Borough […]
This is a rough guess at a dish I had in Wahaca in Soho (London) which has delighted me by being the first Mexican restaurant I have found in Europe which was A) not stupidly expensive and B) where the food actually managed to be fresh, light and distinguishable (for some reason Mexican food […]
This is a recipe from the Ballymaloe Cookery Course. It would probably cause an Italian baker to cry, but it does not require proofing, can be made, baked and served in 30 minutes, and tastes pretty damn good. It is a variation on Irish soda bread, so it is best eaten fresh.It is light and […]
Ok, fine, I will acknowledge that if I were actually to have a choice about what I brought when stranded on a desert island, a cookbook would realistically be down the list. I love reading them, I genuinely read them like I would a novel, but I will grant that it wouldn’t be practical. But, […]
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