Jamie Oliver

Fifteen’s Hazelnut Torte

October 8, 2009

This is a traditional Italian torte, loaded with hazelnuts and poppy seeds, rich with ricotta cheese. It goes well with a cup of good, strong coffee. First butter and line a 28cm tart or cake tin, one with a removable base, with greaseproof paper. Toast 125g of hazelnuts in a dry frying pan over a [...]

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Jamie’s Italian, Brighton

September 12, 2009

I love Brighton. It’s vibrant and exciting, but still has some of that shabby seaside charm and a little of the old menace chronicled so expertly by Graham Greene in the brilliant Brighton Rock. As a seaside town, it’s hard to beat, and as a place to eat out, even harder. As an end-of-holiday meal [...]

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Pinenut and honey tart

April 26, 2009

This nearly didn’t happen. There were too many things that could have gone wrong, and most of them nearly did. Toasting pinenuts, blind baking a pastry case, the wrong type of honey… To my surprise, things turned out well, and we had a delicate and delicious dessert, sweet and balanced with a deep honey flavour, [...]

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Pollo Alla Cacciatora, or Italian Chicken Stew with Chianti

March 2, 2009

Chicken cacciatora is a simple dish that yields impressive results. The preparation of this dish takes minutes, but the magic happens over hours as the chicken marinates in wine, before bubbling away in a low oven. The end result is tender chicken in a deep and savoury sauce rich with wine and tomato. Authentic, rustic [...]

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Spicy Parsnip Soup

February 7, 2009

One of the key problems of subscribing to an organic veg delivery scheme is that you get what you’re given, and this sometimes leads to a growing mountain of something that you’d rather not have. Nobody in our family really likes parsnips. They’re OK, I suppose, but not in the ‘hmm, what shall we have [...]

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Fish pie

October 16, 2008

Fish pie is universally loved in our house. This version is from Jamie Oliver’s second book, The Return of the Naked Chef, back when Jamie was a cook rather than a moral crusader. A fish pie is well suited to this time of year, when the weather can’t really decide if it’s going to be [...]

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Sourdough part V

September 14, 2008

After a month of preparation, the time has come to bake some bread. My starter has been bubbling away now for a month and tastes and smells of yeast. Following the Moro recipe, I took 250g of starter and mixed it with 450g of strong white organic flour and 700ml of water. This resulted in [...]

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