It is a truth universally acknowledged that most children have a highly skeptical opinion of the value of eating vegetables. Everyone I know has a story about hiding their peas under their chicken bones to avoid eating them; or scooping pumpkin onto their sibling’s plate when said sibling wasn’t looking; or surreptitiously passing vegetables to their pet […]
Click here for a full portionSpiced pear, apple & pistachio crisp for a snowy day
I supposed you’ve all seen the comedy news items by now: “London paralysed by a foot of snow!” Or the report that the Government’s high-tech plan to ensure that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and visiting dignitaries did not slip and break their necks on ice outside no. 10 Downing Street consisted of, umm, a man with a […]
Click here for a full portionSavoury caprese bread & butter pudding
If I say “Fat Duck” or “Heston Blumenthal“, what is the first specific dish that springs to mind? I’d bet my bottom dollar it’s either egg and bacon ice cream of snail porridge. The question is why these two dishes in particular have so grabbed the public’s imagination. I don’t think it’s that either of them […]
Click here for a full portionSaturday Snapshots #23
The full spectrum, Madrid 2006
Click here for a full portionSmoked salmon paté moulds
As I mentioned before, over Christmas and New Year I had to produce food in three kitchens other than my own, and to save my sanity I decided to come up with three recipes based on one central ingredient: smoked salmon. In the first of this 3-part series, I told you how I made salmon […]
Click here for a full portionCelebrate Scotland with a Burns Night dinner
In the flickering candlelight, there is a man in a skirt approaching me, carrying both a knife and a stuffed sheep’s stomach, and somewhere in the background I can hear a sound like a cat strapped to some Mediaeval instrument of torture. Oh no… hang on… it’s actually bagpipe music. And no, I’m, not being […]
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