Chestnuts: Potatoes with Chestnuts, Bacon & Mushrooms
This is almost a meal in itself, but it also makes a very good accompaniment to roast game birds, poultry, venison and pork. If you’ve...
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- Dec 10, 2016
Chestnuts: Pork Tenderloins Layered with Chestnuts and Mushrooms
If you’re feeling extravagant, use cèpes. Otherwise, use a variety with a good flavour such as chestnut mushrooms. And if you can only...
- Dec 4, 2016
Chestnuts: Chestnut Soup
This is archetypal winter food – thick and warming. It’s filling enough for a simple mid-week lunch and delicious enough for a dinner...
- Oct 3, 2016
Tomatoes: Mediterranean Tomato and Olive Tarts
These are basically pizzas with a polenta pastry crust. The advantage, apart from the fact that the base is deliciously crunchy and...
- Sep 24, 2016
Tomatoes: Baked Sea Bream with Tarragon and Tomatoes
There’s nothing to this. The tomatoes burst as they cook, creating a sauce while you enjoy your aperitif. Bream with tarragon is magical,...
- Sep 17, 2016
Tomatoes: Tomato and Ricotta Sformata
This is a breeze to make and looks smart – a pale yellow set-custard studded with cherry tomatoes, although in the picture above I used a...
- Sep 10, 2016
Tomatoes: Gelée de Tomates
This was one of the recipes I wrote for The Sunday Times. The others were published in August 2009, but this one had to be dropped at the...
- Aug 23, 2016
Herbs: Roast Chicken with Thyme and Cream Cheese
Herbs and cream cheese slotted in under the skin along the breasts not only flavour the bird but also keep the flesh beautifully moist –...
- Aug 20, 2016
Herbs: Dill and Orange-Stuffed Whole Roast Fish
This is a simple, zingy stuffing for whole fish such as sea bass, bream, red mullet, mackerel or trout or whatever is in season and...
- Aug 6, 2016
Herbs: Rocket, Basil, Mint and Parsley Soup
Rosemary is perfect with lamb, sage is a triumph with pork, mint brings out the flavour of peas and tarragon and chicken were made for...
- Jun 28, 2016
Summer Veg: New Potatoes
New potatoes, boiled or steamed and tossed in butter are delicious, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do anything else with them. Here are...
- Jun 22, 2016
Summer Veg: Braised Petits Pois
I know I should be insisting that there is nothing to beat fresh peas, but, honestly, for this recipe I think frozen petits pois are...
- Jun 16, 2016
Summer Veg: Aubergine Rolls
I’ve given two fillings here, but mix, match and add as you like. Olives, anchovies and capers are all candidates. Choose aubergines that...
- Jun 4, 2016
Summer Veg: Tomato-Stuffed Red Peppers
I had a damascene conversion to vegetables in the summer of 2004. Actually I had no choice. For eight weeks, I was not allowed to eat...
- Apr 11, 2016
Salads: Smoked Salmon Salad with Soy and Ginger Dressing
Smoked salmon with brown bread should be a treat, but when you’ve had too many garden parties with canapés of sun-warmed smoked salmon on...
- Apr 4, 2016
Salads: Potato, Chorizo, Prawn and Paprika Salad
Salad doesn’t have to be something on the side or a bit of greenery bringing up the rear. It can be a starter or the main event and it...
- Feb 25, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Fish en Papillote with Vermouth
An effortless way to cook whole fish, either one per person or sharing. Just put the fish in a foil parcel with herbs and liquor and put...
- Feb 17, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Garlicky Prawns Flambéd in Whiskey
Irish whiskey may sound unlikely, but trust me. Ideally you should buy live prawns and cook them yourself, but I’ve been known to use...
- Feb 2, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Tuna Ceviche with Vodka and Lime
Far be it from me to suggest that anyone should find cooking with wine in Britain off-puttingly expensive, but I do concede that, thanks...
- Jan 16, 2016
Boozy Food with Wine: Beef with Shallots in Red Wine
Everybody needs a failsafe, rich and warming beef casserole recipe for winter. This is mine. I always use shin, because it has such a...
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