A great, nutritious alternative to rice and pasta…
Wild rice has been neglected by this blogger for far too long and after reading up on it I feel almost ashamed to have given it the proverbial cold shoulder. First off, a couple of facts for you; wild rice isn’t rice. Why call something something that something […]
A recipe for a Christmas snack…
I’ve been thinking about some snack/nibble type dishes to offer our guests over the Christmas period and came across this old recipe for salted hazelnuts which, to be honest I’d not heard of before. The recipe says that when packed in glass jars they make an attractive present, particularly at […]
An easy to make game terrine starter…
This is a dish which came about when one of my chefs asked me about the traditional roast bird within a bird dish, you know the one;start with a turkey and stuff it with the next sized bird down etc, etc. Well, I took the idea of that and […]
Watching a young head chef making his mark…
I’ve just returned from a trip to one of our hotels where one of my head chefs is doing a fantastic job in his first senior position. He started working for me as a young twenty year old commis chef and now, seven years later he is running […]
A winter duck dish…
Autumn seems to have passed me by, I have, regrettably spent much of it indoors which I loathe as it is my favourite season by far. Gazing out of my kitchen window I can see the trees shedding their leaves and the afternoons turning ever darker. Gloom. But fear not! Here’s a […]
A warming tray of winter goodness…
Here’s a picture to brighten up a gloomy day, a roasting tray choc full of root vegetables slowly cooking alongside a piece of lamb…lurvely!
This is what this time of year is all about, where I am it’s dark, damp and pretty grim so a splash of colour is needed for […]
How to cook sweet potatoes…
I eat a lot of sweet potatoes as part of my daily diet, they’re a great carb source and I find them easier to eat than white potatoes. To keep them interesting I try and cook them a slightly different way each time. Sometimes I roast them with spices, other times […]
An easy recipe for making aubergines taste nice…
I wonder how many households regularly cook an aubergine? Outside of a ratatouille or moussaka what would anyone do with it? Well, I’ve got the answer! Here’s a suggestion for using up some left over aubergine and like most of the recipes I put on here I leave […]
The nations favourite nugget revisited…
I wonder how many portions of scampi and chips have been sold in Britain? Scampi in a basket was the standard bearer of crappy restaurants the length and breadth of our great nation back in the seventies and eighties. Deep fried frozen nuggets of scampi tails cooked until rock hard […]
A simple seafood salad recipe…
Here’s a simple starter or salad main course I came up with last week. How you do it and what you use is really up to you, the choice of fish should be a matter of personal taste. What I did was prepare each fish individually but you could buy a […]