My regular Asian supermarket had a huge pile of chopped mutton shoulder, displayed in that haphazard way characteristic of those sort of places, so I took a kilo without really knowing what to do with it. I vaguely remembered Gordon Ramsey banging on about mutton (underrated, hardly used, etc) and doing something North African with [...]
Saltaire Farmer’s Market (third Saturday of the month) never fails to disappoint. Today, there were eight stalls stretched across a whole car park. That’s a lot of empty tarmac. One cheese stall, a couple of meat stalls, with the rest made up with cake and biscuit stalls. No soup, no pies, not even any fruit [...]
I’ve tried a few times to make sourdough bread, with a little success, but mostly failure. Previous results were patchy, resulting in a very heavy bread lacking the big, yeasty holes characteristic of a good sourdough loaf. Either that, or the starter never really got off the ground, turning into a grey, foul sludge. My [...]