I seem to always pick the one recipe in a book that revolves around some new and exotic ingredient that I’ve never even seen before, let alone used. The other week, it was goat. This week, it’s sumac, the dried, ground fruit of the rhus plant. Sumac is common all over the Middle East, where [...]
As I suspect plenty of people do, I buy massive bags of pasta from the supermarket. Most of it gets cooked quickly and eaten even more quickly when we arrive home either late or starving. Pasta often gets degraded to a ‘there’s not enough time to cook anything’ convenience food, but that really doesn’t do [...]
http://www.youtube.com/v/tUyIiaeZgmI?fs=1&hl=en_US Fish pie is one of those easy-yet-sublime recipes that I should make more often. This exclusive video shows Jamie Oliver knocking together his version. My pathetically photographed interpretation of this dish is here. In my defence, it was a very early post… Note that Jamie has quite a knack with that potato masher.
I’ve started to eat a lot more porridge, as an alternative breakfast to my usual couple of slices of toast. The benefits have been enormous. Porridge is a slow-burning food that provides fuel for the body over a much longer period of time than bread. I don’t feel hungry until much later in the morning, [...]
The other weekend, I had a bit of an adventure with a couple of crabs. It ended badly for the crabs. Their fate was to be picked over at great length and eaten with bread and a quite superb mayonnaise. The fact that the mayonnaise turned out quite well, or was edible at all, came [...]