Every now and again, my freezer becomes so full that the door barely shuts. Obviously, this is a sub-optimal condition for a freezer to be in, so something has to come out before something else goes in. Yesterday, the thing that had to give was a shortcrust tart case – too bulky, too awkward and [...]
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. [...]