Chicken livers are extremely good for you. They’re a rich source of protein, packed with iron and vitamins. They’re good for your brain, good for your fertility if you’re a woman, and great recovery food after a tough workout. They should be top of the shopping list, but instead, they’re criminally underused, relegated to sad [...]
The best types of recipes use just one pot, the same one right through from the moment the first dice of onion hits hot olive oil right through to its placement at the centre of the table. It’s efficient, streamlined, but to work properly, the pan itself is important, and that’s where heavy, solid cast [...]
Cooking Indian food can be something of a trial. Lists of ingredients a mile long, complicated techniques, extended cooking times … It’s always worth the effort, always worth the satisfaction of sitting down to a rogan josh that’s been simmering away for a couple of hours, the spices blending together with unfathomable complexity. But sometimes, [...]
Every now and then, I get an urge for junk food. Vegetables are all very well, but there’s nothing like the occasional meal of that consists of what I’d normally consider to be complete rubbish. I think of this as a cathartic palate cleanser, and it strikes about once a year. Normally, it’s fried chicken, and I’ll [...]
A lot of the food I cook at the moment is about convenience. Not ‘convenience’ in the sense of ‘piercing the film on some ready meal and throwing it into a microwave’, but convenience in terms of getting the best results with the least effort. That doesn’t mean that my food is becoming ‘bad’ – there’s a [...]