Wines Pairings for Christmas from Berry Bros. & Rudd: What do you do when you are working out what wines to buy for Christmas? It’s a time of year when you really want something a little bit special – and yet, there is such a range of food to think about, it can be hard […]
Simple Summer Food from Eating Well Everyday
Salmon and Goats Cheese Omelette – a review of Eating Well Everyday: I tend to run shy of chef recipe books – I generally find the recipes are too complicated for everyday and too high risk for entertaining. But Eating Well Everyday by Peter Gordon caught my eye – and, breaking my own rule, I was delighted […]
Venison Sausage Pasta
Venison Sausage Pasta Recipe – a spicy solution to the solo sausage dilemma. Sausages tend to come in packs of 4 or 6. If you are me and cook mostly for yourself or one other person, that can mean three or four days of sausages and chips. Or far too much toad in the hole. […]
Lemon and Yoghurt Scone Recipe
It’s a long time since I tried making scones. I can remember making batches of the things when I was in my teens because my mum, as doctor’s wife in a small town, was ‘volunteered’ to cater for the local tennis tournament each year (apparently the doctor’s wife ALWAYS did the catering!). It sounds trivial […]
Spiced Beef Casserole with Guinness and Orange
Spiced Beef and Guinness Casserole with Orange. It’s winter. And I have a brand new slow cooker thanks to the lovely people at Crock-UK. I’ve been dying to try it out and the other day I christened it using one of my family’s favourite recipes, a warming Spiced Beef and Guinness Casserole with orange. I’ve […]
Roast Partridge with Pear and Thyme
Roast Partridge with Pear and Thyme. We’ve spent the last 5 months visiting various blogs throughout the UK who have been championing their own local produce and cuisine. Literally from Lands-End with Choclette from Tin and Thyme to John o Groats, with Janice at Farmers Girl Kitchen. During that time, you’ve all risen to the […]
Easy Bouillabaisse Recipe at Kitchen Aid Cookery School
Playing Chef in the Kitchen – Bouillabaisse with Kitchen Aid: Like most people I am a real fan of Kitchen Aid small kitchen appliances – mixers, blenders and multicookers. What I didn’t realise, until I was invited along to the Kitchen Aid store on Wigmore Street was that they also make large kitchen appliances (hobs, […]
Gratin Dauphinois with the Panasonic CS-894 steam microwave
Simple and Quick Gratin Dauphinois Recipe: The Panasonic CS-894 steam microwave has so many more features than a conventional microwave. It really does speed up the cooking process even with dishes that you might normally expect to need hours in the oven. This year, Spring seems to be rather late, so I’m craving comfort food. […]
Västerbottensost Cheese
Swedish recipes for Västerbottensost with Bronte from Scandi Kitchen: My first encounter with the impossible to pronounce and even more impossible to spell Västerbottensost cheese was a few weeks ago at Kupp. My dining companion was very keen to order the cheese platter because it focused on this unique Swedish cheese and I wasn’t in […]
Peppered smoked mackerel with dill pollen
Dill Pollen and Smoked Mackerel – a Simple Fusion of Flavour: I made this lunch dish to showcase two ingredients. Some lovely smoked peppered mackerel from John at Delish Fish and Dill Pollen sent to me by David at Global Harvest. I wanted a quick and easy lunch dish but thought it would be fun […]