Pecan pie, or how I finally nailed pastry making

February 19, 2012
Pecan Pie

I’ve got a very chequered history with pastry. Sometimes, it works out OK, but not perfect, other times it’s a complete disaster. The number of times the pastry has shrunk back from the rim of the tin, leaving a flat disk of insipid pastry with a slightly upturned lip, is uncountable.  That flat disk with [...]

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Prime Burger, NYC

February 11, 2012
Prime Burger, New York City

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On Seville oranges and marmalade

February 5, 2012
How to make marmalade

This is a great time of year to cook. Yes, we’re in the depths of winter, but the first signs of the year to come are starting to appear in the ground and in the shops. The first stalks of forced rhubarb are out, straight from the groaning sheds of West Yorkshire, and it’s the [...]

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Starter to loaf – how to make sourdough bread

January 28, 2012
How to make sourdough bread, from starter to loaf

Bread is the most elemental of food. It’s just flour, water, yeast and salt, and, in it’s most basic form, that’s it. Go ahead and embellish it however you want, but a basic loaf is the stuff of life itself. But, what if you were to go one step more fundamental, and use your own [...]

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Ecclefechan tart, for Burns Night

January 25, 2012
Scottish Ecclefechan tart

Ecclefechan, a small town in the Scottish Borders is famous for a few things, including being the birthplace of both the writer Thomas Carlyle and one Archibald Arnott, Napoleon’s doctor during his extended stay on St Helena, but also, and this is slightly more pertinent for a food blog, for the Ecclefechan tart, a rich concoction of [...]

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Getting the most out of game – Fur & Feathers, with Lishman’s, Ilkley

January 22, 2012
David Lishman's Fur and Feather's game butchery course, Ilkley

There’s a lot of mystery around game…hunting it, preparing it, cooking it. It’s all a little bit impenetrable for urban dwellers like me. Despite being essentially a city boy, I’ve cooked with game of various types for many years, but I’ve never really had much hands on experience with it, never shot or trapped anything, [...]

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New Year, less booze?

January 12, 2012
How much do you drink?

It’s that time of year again….Christmas and New Year over and done with, and the miserable dreariness of January, work and general fatigue induced depression right back on top of us. I started writing this on what’s widely regarded as the worst day of the year – the first Monday at the head of a [...]

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Leon: Baking & Puddings, Claire Ptak & Henry Dimbleby

January 7, 2012
Leon 3: Baking & Puddings

Leon is a fast food chain with a difference.  Firstly, the food is quite good, and secondly, it’s prepared on the basis that it should taste good and do you good at the same time. This, Leon: Baking & Puddings, the restaurant’s third cookbook, stretches that last point to the maximum. There are recipes in [...]

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