I’ve come close to attempting to make dry-cured sausages a couple of times, but never been able to get the right equipment together to make it happen. The sticking point is controlling temperature and humidity properly, so that the sausage cures without developing any nasty surprises, like botulism. To get good results safely, I’d need [...]
Years ago, I used to live in a little flat on the side of a big house. It had a long set of stone stairs leading up to the front door, and the top of the stairs caught the sun for a good few hours a day, even in winter. One of the first things [...]
As part of his Fish Fight, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is encouraging us to eat a more diverse range of fish, and there’s one cheap, sustainable, nutritious and extremely tasty species right at the front of the pack. Mackerel. Criminally under-valued, mackerel is nothing short of a show-stopper. Packed with all the right types of fish oil [...]
http://www.youtube.com/v/L2fZcmjbqpA?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0 There’s something wrong with fishing in Europe. The thing is, over half of the fish caught in the North Sea end up being thrown back overboard, dead, the victim of a set of insane regulations intended to protect European fishery stocks, but which instead serve to decimate them. The basic thrust is that fishermen [...]
It stands to reason that curry goat is best made with goat, but goat meat can prove difficult to find. I scoured nearly every butcher I knew in the hope of finding it, from my normal, trusted shop right through to the tiny halal places in the back streets of Bradford. Nobody had goat. Nobody [...]