20 October 2010

Recipe For Chicken Tikka Masala

17 October 2010

Tasting Exotic Meats From South Africa

Earlier this year, we were contacted at Steenbergs Factory by someone asking us whether we had any sausage seasonings.  The answer to which is yes, however they then asked us whether we had anything that would go with kangaroo, which was not what we...

14 October 2010

Perfecting A Carrot Cake Recipe

12 October 2010

Blending Christmas Tea

It is that time of year when customers are after our Christmas tea which is made to my own special recipe. 

08 October 2010

Recipe For Rich Apple Cake

The idea for this cake comes from the wonderful cook book "European Peasant Cookery" by Elisabeth Luard; it is her recipe for Apple Cake or Æblekage, which comes from Denmark.  "European Peasant Cookery" is one of those great cookbooks that is packed...

06 October 2010

Interesting Food Blogs In September 2010 (Part 2)

There has always been a place in my soul for some of the Indian Gods as they remind me of my grandmother, who spent many years in India and so her small flat in Munich had this exotic feel as it was full of momentoes of here years and love of India. ...

05 October 2010

Interesting Food Blogs In September 2010 (Part 1)

September has been a busy month for food bloggers.  I think that is partly as many have had a holiday in August and recharged their batteries, but also it is harvest time and so there's a huge amount of culinary stimulation in the fields, gardens, ma...

02 October 2010

Recipe For Fruit Teabread Revisited

For whatever reasons, I have not been quite happy with the original teabread recipe that I created and posted a few weeks back, so I have been playing around with the recipe now and baking away.  Now several teabreads and a family of very happy taste...

28 September 2010

Recipe For Traditional Gingerbread

26 September 2010

Apples, Bloody Apples And An Apple Cake Recipe

We only have three apple trees in our garden, but they have been massively fruitful this year.  In fact, they have produced so many apples I cannot even hope to use them all, even with friends and family taking them.  Nature has been so very fecund t...

20 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...

18 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...

15 September 2010

Vanilla - A Beautiful And Sensual Spice

Vanilla comes from the vanilla orchid, called Vanilla planifolia, which is native to Mexico, but is now indigenous in many tropical parts of the world, for example Madagascar and surrounding islands.  There is a second vanilla orchid called Vanilla t...

09 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...

06 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...

04 September 2010

Food Blogs Round Up - August 2010

It is the height of European Summer so a number of the food blogs are in holiday mode.  In spite, or perhaps because of the summer, Julia Parsons at A Slice Of Cherry Pie has been making Tuscan Style Soup.

03 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...

26 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...