Cheap Entertaining: Pork Chops with Mustard & Honey
Pork is cheap, but chops are often so lean (obsessively so in supermarkets) they need remedial treatment to stop them being dry. The...
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- Nov 13, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: Taste the Difference Priorat 2013
£10, Sainsbury's You can pay a small fortune for a wine from the remote, hilly region of Priorat in Catalonia – home to some of Spain’s...
- Nov 8, 2015
Cheap Entertaining: Milk-Braised Lamb with Fennel
If the sound of meat and milk sounds odd, remember that pork braised in milk has a impeccable pedigree from both Venice and southwest...
- Nov 6, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: Fess Parker Santa Barbara County Chardonnay 2014
£13.95, The Wine Society, thewinesociety.com This wine is a great match for cashew nuts. You might think that anybody worrying about...
- Nov 1, 2015
Cheap Entertaining: Lazy Baked Chicken with Soy and Ginger
Another from my Sunday Times recipe series, again very relevant right now - November and the run-up to Christmas are definitely a time...
- Oct 29, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: Zensa Nero d’Avola 2013
£10.50, Oddbins, oddbins.com Love the retro label, love the wine - a full-on, spicy, cherry-scented red that will go down a treat (as...
- Oct 25, 2015
A 2-minute guide to wine and cheese matching
Oozing with flavour: Fromagerie Caseus, the excellent cheese shop in Montreuil, Pas de Calais, France Let’s cut to the chase: wine and...
- Oct 24, 2015
Secret Burgundy
Marine algae sprays, anti-hail nets, a secret vineyard… I was in Burgundy in June and some fascinating things emerged at visits to Louis...
- Oct 23, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: The Lot Series Apalta Colchagua Carmenère 2012
£7.99, Aldi Maybe you already buy wine at Aldi. If you don't, maybe you'll want to reconsider… At a tenner, the red I've chosen is one of...
- Oct 22, 2015
Negroni for wine lovers: aged in a Bordeaux barrel
£23.95, worldofzing.com I know, I know, it's not wine, but World of Zing's Negroni is aged in oak barrels that previously held Bordeaux...
- Oct 15, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: João Portugal Ramos Vinho Verde Loureiro 2014
£7.99, cellarandkitchen.adnams.co.uk and Adnams stores Hear this: Portuguese wines are some of the most overlooked and underrated and you...
- Oct 14, 2015
Breakfast & Brunch: Lemon curd
I don't know why more people don't make lemon curd. It's much easier than marmalade or jam and bears no discernible relation to the...
- Oct 10, 2015
Breakfast & Brunch: Friands
These light, moist almond cakes, also known as financiers, are French in origin, but they’ve been taken up by the Australians and you’re...
- Oct 8, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: Berry Bros & Rudd Côtes du Rhône Rouge 2012
£10.75, Berry Bros & Rudd Côtes du Rhône can be simple and quaffable or a bit rough around the edges or it can come with smart...
- Oct 3, 2015
Breakfast & Brunch: Bacon Muffins
Continuing on from last week's breakfast and brunch comes another alternative idea, this time an homage to that all-important brunch...
- Oct 1, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: Bolney Estate Pinot Noir 2013
£15.99, Waitrose There are going to be plenty of opportunities to hunker down with big, beefy reds in the months to come, so here, for...
- Sep 26, 2015
Breakfast & Brunch: Kedgeree
Is it just me or have we become oddly unimaginative about breakfast, belying the British reputation for starting the day with the closest...
- Sep 25, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: Definition Chardonnay 2014
£9.74, Majestic Wine Let's extend a warm welcome to a sophisticated, Burgundy-style Chardonnay at a non-Burgundy price. In fact, this...
- Sep 23, 2015
Tales of the Underrated: Chenin Blanc
It was drinking an Anjou Blanc with English asparagus a couple of months ago – Château de Fesles La Chapelle 2011, since you ask – that...
- Sep 17, 2015
WINE OF THE WEEK: Masi Campofiorin Rosso del Veronese 2011
£9.99, Waitrose Think of this as an alternative to a goose-down duvet, a red to snuggle up with as the evenings get chillier: a soft,...
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