Grozet is a gooseberry flavoured beer from William Bros. Brewing Company, a Scottish brewer based in Alloa who specialise in the historic or slightly esoteric end of the market. William Bros. brew a range of unusual beers, Grozet being the prime example. It’s a heritage beer, based on a 16th century beer brewed at harvest [...]
‘Bhuna‘ is a particular Asian cooking style where a sauce is reduced and reduced until it is so thick that it just clings to the meat, making the meat appear ‘browned’. Dishes cooked in the bhuna style are rich and pungent, the flavour of the spice mix concentrated down by the fierce reduction of the [...]
I feel like I’ve mastered a mysterious, secret art. I made a pork pie, and it was easy. More than that, it tasted astounding. Here’s how. Start with the pastry. The pastry is unusual as it’s made with hot water. It seems to go against everything you know about making pastry, but it does work. [...]
There’s been something of a backlash against the organic food movement in recent months, brought on by a new found frugality in the face of the deepening economic crisis. People see organic food as just too expensive, a luxury they simply can’t afford. The taste and quality argument is easy to win – organically grown [...]
Year’s ago, in the seas around the Cornish town of Padstow, there lived a mermaid. As mermaids do, she fell in love with a local fisherman, and tried to lure him beneath the waves, into her realm. The fisherman, in terror, and fearing for his life, shot her to escape. In her dying moments, the [...]