La Grillade is a typical French restaurant, just like the places you’d find in any sizable French town. Except it’s in Leeds. That makes it special. The restaurant is housed in the basement of a Victorian terrace, and looks uninspiring from the outside. Down the stairs, it’s a different world, a series of small dining [...]
Most people have a few cookbooks, some of which get used a couple of times, providing the odd dish or two before being left on the shelf and forgotten, others of which are used over and over again for years, decades, gradually acquiring a coat of flour, grease, stains, spills. Battered books that work hard. [...]
An old method of preserving meat is to cook it slowly in fat, then leave it so that when the fat sets, the meat is entirely encased in it. Any type of meat can be cooked and preserved in this way, but the method is particularly suited to poultry, and especially to duck.To make confit [...]