Recipes, food & cooking posts - page 10
25 September 2010
Recipe For Oven Cooked Smoky Barbecued Ribs
We love spare ribs at home and have started eating them even more recently. It's the primaeval joy of chomping on your food while holding it in your fingers; something our kids truly adore. In these straightened times, it is also great to use one o...
Read more22 September 2010
Recipe For Pears In Rooibos With Vanilla And Saffron
One of the classics of British cuisine is to poach pears in red wine or syrup. As a variation on this, I sometimes create a sweet spicy syrup to poach the pears in, then reduce these to a thick, sweet sauce. Recently, however, I have been...
Read more20 September 2010
Simpler Venison Casserole Recipe
Having gone through the fuss and carry on of marinading venison in stock per the previous post, I wondered why you do not just make a stew in the normal way as you would for beef or lamb. Also, I still had some of the Hornby Castle venison in the fr...
Read more18 September 2010
Recipes Using Venison From Hornby Castle
I bought some delicious venison steaks and diced venison the other day from Hornby Castle in North Yorkshire. Since then, we have been experimenting with a couple of different casseroles, and have come up with two different ones - a traditional rich...
Read more17 September 2010
Recipe For Yorkshire Fruit Tea Bread
We have always loved teabreads here at home like those made by Elizabeth Bothams of Whitby, but I reckoned that some of those homely, comforting cakes could not be too difficult to make. So this weekend I set out to make a traditional Fruit Teabread...
Read more09 September 2010
The Hummingbird On Stroud Green Road
One of my favourite hidden restaurants in London has been for many years, The Humming Bird, at 84 Stroud Green Road, which serves traditional Caribbean cuisine. Sophie and I visited there on Monday with my brother, getting drenched on the way back i...
Read more06 September 2010
London Restaurants Around Finsbury Park
Sophie and I have been down in London for the last few days, leaving our children with my parents, while we enjoy the delights of exhibiting at the Speciality & Fine Food Fair trade show at Olympia. We have been staying at my brother’s house in...
Read more03 September 2010
Recipe For Luxury Chocolate Gateaux Or Pavé
This is another recipe that I have followed from Pierre Hermé's inspirational cookbook "Chocolate", which I have reinterpreted for a British audience. The only tweak I have made to it was in the use of edible gold as a garnish on top of the chocolat...
Read more26 August 2010
Recipe For Wild Salmon With Pink Peppercorn Sauce
This recipe began as one of those serendipitous events when on holiday this July in Scotland. We had one of those small kitchens that has no equipment and a very temperamental cooker, plus we had brought almost no ingredients with us. Then around a...
Read more19 August 2010
Axel's Raspberry Cheesecake Recipe
My sister and her family came to visit at the weekend, so I was scrabbling around trying to come up with a summery pudding to create, while the rain was gushing down outside in torrents. I decided that roast chicken with all the trimmings, followed...
Read more16 August 2010
A Recipe For Meatballs In Tomato And Red Pepper Sauce
Cooking at home differs from fancy cuisine in restaurants in that it is about compromise. While a top notch chef does not need to compromise on ingredients and quality, at home you need to juggle your precious time with what you have got available i...
Read more14 August 2010
Recipe For Coronation Chicken
I had been looking for an excuse to try a recipe that I had pulled out of The Daily Telegraph from Xanthe Clay's hunt for the Best British Recipes. It is that classic of British fusion cooking and sentimentality for bygone Imperialism (rightly or wr...
Read more11 August 2010
Elsewhere In The Blogosphere - July 2010 (Part 1)
With the summer fruit rolling in, Raspberry Jam is being made at A Slice of Cherry Pie, while at Cannelle et Vanille Aran is inspired by a simple bowl of frozen raspberries and bakes delicious Gluten Free Raspberry Scones and a fancy Heirloom Tomato,...
Read more07 August 2010
Recipe For Almond Cake
This recipe began with a blog post from David Lebovitz, who wrote that his desert island food would be Almond Cake. So with great anticipation, I tried his recipe several weeks back, but while Sophie and I loved the marzipan-almond luxury and the ol...
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