This recipe comes to me via a convoluted path. It’s a Marcella Hazan recipe, posted on Thursday Night Smackdown by Claudia, the blogger behind Cook Eat FRET. Wherever it came from, it’s a magnificent recipe. This is really just an old Italian way of cooking a chicken breast stuffed with some pancetta and sage, but [...]
I was blessed/cursed with a massive savoy cabbage in my organic veg delivery last week. What to do? There’s really only one way to dispose of a huge amount of cabbage, and that’s in a soup. This recipe is from the brilliant and dependable A Celebration of Soup by Lindsey Bareham. Chop a small onion [...]
We’ve been part of an organic box scheme for a few years now. The first company we bought from went horribly bust, following a period of the worst customer service I’ve ever seen – when I say I want to cancel an order, I want to cancel it there and then, not have it continue [...]
Nigel Slater is much respected in my kitchen. I’ve been religiously buying his cookbooks for over a decade now, and his recipes are the first thing I check in the Observer every Sunday morning. There is an ease and simplicity about Slater’s recipes that I like – his is the kind of easy and relaxed [...]
Sometimes, it’s difficult to know what to cook, especially when the fridge is empty and nothing seems to quite fit the bill. It was one of those days where Gordon Ramsey could have turned up with his whole kitchen brigade to cook our dinner and we’d have just mumbled something about not fancying anything on [...]