Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Hugh’s Fish Fight friendly mackerel bap

January 19, 2011 Food & drink

As part of his Fish Fight, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is encouraging us to eat a more diverse range of fish, and there’s one cheap, sustainable, nutritious and extremely tasty species right at the front of the pack. Mackerel. Criminally under-valued, mackerel is nothing short of a show-stopper. Packed with all the right types of fish oil [...]

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Why are perfectly good fish thrown back into the sea, dead?

January 14, 2011 Food politics

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Fish Fight

There’s something wrong with fishing in Europe. The thing is, over half of the fish caught in the North Sea end up being thrown back overboard, dead, the victim of a set of insane regulations intended to protect European fishery stocks, but which instead serve to decimate them. The basic thrust is that fishermen are [...]

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Curry goat

September 22, 2010 Food & drink

It stands to reason that curry goat is best made with goat, but goat meat can prove difficult to find. I scoured nearly every butcher I knew in the hope of finding it, from my normal, trusted shop right through to the tiny halal places in the back streets of Bradford. Nobody had goat. Nobody [...]

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Very slow roasted shoulder of lamb with merguez spices

November 21, 2009 Food & drink

A shoulder of lamb is a hefty cut, but it’s cheap and it goes a long way. This method leaves the lamb falling apart, tender from the best part of a day in the oven. It’s very satisfying and relaxing to know that something great is happening in your oven at home whilst you’re out [...]

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Lamb breast, stuffed and rolled

October 22, 2009 Food & drink

Part of the challenge of cooking is to make something unpromising into something worth eating. There are few cuts of meat that present as little to the cook as a breast of lamb. Let’s be frank here. This is not an appetising cut. It looks fatty, skinny, full of gristle and just plain unappealing. On [...]

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Slow roasted pork belly with fennel and coriander crackling

October 12, 2009 Food & drink

A pork belly gives a lot of bang for buck. It’s a cheap cut that benefits from simple, hands-off cooking. A few herbs, some salt and pepper and a few hours in a low oven are all you need. First, the joint. A cut from the thick end of the belly weighing between 1 and [...]

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How to make butter at home

September 22, 2009 Food & drink

Making butter is simple. It’s really just very agitated cream. The craft of making butter seems to have been lost. In past centuries, most butter was made by hand using methods similar to this. These are forgotten skills now, so much so that actually doing it yourself by hand and seeing a pat of butter [...]

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Dealing with gluts – chutney

September 8, 2009 Food & drink

It happens to all courgette growers. Turn your back for a day or so and the small, delicate fruits transform into gigantic marrows. They take over your plot, they take over your fridge. You kid yourself that courgette soup is nice, then you realise it isn’t. You throw them on the compost heap. Happens every [...]

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How to roast a chicken

July 29, 2009 Food & drink

There are many ways to roast a chicken. Everybody has a tweak, an opinion, a little trick or two. This is how I do it. I prefer a roast chicken to be simple. I’ve tried all sorts of ways, including a heart-stopping version involving nearly a pound of butter, garlic, thyme and a lot of [...]

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