It’s good to be frugal, but there are times when frugality goes too far and tips over into just plain old stupidity. This recipe falls just to the right side of OK – pickling a watermelon rind, you know, the green part that gets chucked on the compost pile, sounds ridiculous, and it would be, [...]
This recipe…no, this experiment…caused more trouble than any other I’ve ever made. The bother started in the butcher’s shop. I asked for a pig’s head. The butcher, seemingly used to such requests, went and got a pig head, slapping it down on the block. It was spotted by the woman behind me in the queue, [...]
Lentils! The world’s most underwhelming pulse. Universally cooked to near oblivion and ridiculed as sub-standard hippy/student fare, the humble lentil has a bad reputation, but cook them so that there’s still a tiny bite to them, and then hit them with a pile of spices and it’s a different story. If any food is a [...]
Coffee is easy to make well, and even easier to make badly. There are plenty of methods of making coffee, but the stand-out, everyday method is to use a cafetière, or a French press as it’s known over The Pond. Forget about drip or filter coffee, keep the Italian stove top pot for when you’ve [...]
Indian cookery doesn’t have to be complicated, and it needn’t take a long time. Here’s proof. If you’re good at chopping things up, you could have this chickpea curry on the table in about twenty-five minutes, for under about £3 for four servings. The building blocks of the curry go into the pan first. Heat [...]