A good seafood paella starts with freshly delivered fish. One of the silver linings of the past year of lockdowns has been the proliferation of companies selling top quality fresh food online. Now that restaurants are re-opening their doors – hopefully not to have to shut them again any time soon – my hope is […]
Pushing the boat out with Pesky Fish
Have fun with sustainable British fish I spent the first three decades of my life in the southern hemisphere where the fish are rather different from those that swim in the waters around the UK. I knew my way around the fish market, what to look out for and, even more importantly for a home […]
Cod with Dill and Parsley Sauce
Cod with Dill and Parsley Sauce This is an updated classic recipe for Cod with Dill and Parsley sauce – lighter than the traditional bechamel sauce with parsley that my mother would have served and delicious on a cold winter’s day. This recipe was one I developed when I was working with a rather special […]
Get in a stew with British shellfish
Cooking a cioppino with frozen shellfish from The Berwick Shellfish Co. The British shellfish industry is in the news at the moment for all the wrong reasons. Hit by a double whammy of restaurants closed due to Covid-19 plus the shambles of Brexit that has seen shellfish rotting when it should have been whisked over […]
French Date Night – A Valentine’s Menu
Avoid “une loterie d’amour” with our French Date Night Menu There’s nothing more romantic than zipping over to Paris on the Eurostar for a Valentine’s date with your significant other. But we can’t do that at the moment… Putain! So on February 14th, we will all be downing a couple of Valium, searching for our […]
Battered Cod and Chips with Easy Tartar Sauce
The Great British Fish and Chips! #Ad: Written in Conjunction with Opies Skip straight to my Gentle reader, do you crave certain foods? Chocolate perhaps? Ice-cream or homemade cookies? When you should be cooking your fish en papillote with green vegetables, do you crave a fish and chips shop special? I know […]
A British Date-Night Menu with Hambledon Classic Cuvée and Langham Wine Estate Rosé 2017
No sex please, we’re British! Since restaurants are shut at the moment and it’s impossible to sweep your beloved off to Paris for a romantic staycation, here at London Unattached we are providing you with three internationally themed date-night menus just in time for Valentine’s day with matched wines. This is the first in the […]
Cod with Capers and Tomato with Château de Tracy 2019 Pouilly-Fumé
A fishy adventure paired with fine wine – Cod with Capers and Pouilly-Fumé. My exploration of food and wine pairings at home is continuing with a rather special bottle of Pouilly-Fumé from Château de Tracy. Now, until recently, although I knew there were two wines that sound rather similar, Pouilly-Fumé and Pouilly-Fuissé, I wasn’t aware […]
Pissaladière Recipe – with Faulkner Provençal Rosés
The Ultimate Provençal Pairing – Pissaladière and Rosé Wine Our latest wine review and recipe feature takes us to Provence in the South of France. We will be reviewing two high-quality rosés coming from Canadian winemaker Julian Faulkner’s family estate in the Côtes de Provence, the spiritual home of rosé wine. To accompany the wines […]
Salmon en Papillote with fish from Forman & Field
Salmon Parcels! Salmon en Papillote Recipe. The first time I came across H. Forman & Son, the family-owned salmon smoking business that dates back to 1905, was a few years back. I was on an early morning trip to Billingsgate Fish Market, choosing seafood to use for a cookery challenge. Along the way, I won […]