The first harvest of squashes…
In days of old when time was on my side and I could enjoy the merits of a large kitchen garden one of the most satisfying periods of the year was the harvesting of my late summer/early autumn squash. I loved watching these beauties grow, they would spread themselves across the […]
A great recipe for courgette bread…
Here’s a recipe very kindly donated by Veronica, a most welcome newcomer to the blog (don’t worry Veronica, you’ll soon come to your senses!)
Anyhow, here’s Veronica’s recipe, well worth a try by the sounds of it. Many thanks Veronica, we love stuff like this…
Veronica’s Courgette Bread Recipe
Well I have adapted […]
My attempt at the world record for variations on a single theme!….
Yep, how many variations of duck and goats cheese can one bloke come up? Well, I’ve found another; tea smoked duck with goats cheese, blackberries, hibiscus flowers and walnuts. Now call me repetetive but there are only so many starters you can feasibly do […]
An easy method for cooking tuna…
Cooking tuna is, like Chinese wok cookery all about getting prepared in advance. Cooking the fish should be the very last thing you do before assembling the dish so it’s vital that what you serve with it canbe quickly assembled and will ‘hold’ whilst you cook the tuna.
It’s been a […]
How to make gorgonzola salad…
This is, I suppose a play on a similar theme for me; cheese, bacon, walnuts etc.. What I wanted to create was something which would comfortably slip into the month of September and a nice salad with some robust flavours seemed like the right choice.
The dish started with me pickling some […]
How to make a great recipe for chilli paste…
I’ve got some new menus starting this week and one of the soups will be an Asian style fish and shellfish broth flavoured with aromatic herbs and a pungent chilli paste. I love chilli pastes, they come in various guises but they are all extremely versatile.
Chilli pastes […]
A great recipe for apple jelly…
A regular of this blog since its inception the lovely Cid has kindly donated the following recipe for her apple jelly which I thought should be shared….
“Perhaps not all liquorice root sticks were created equal because the two I bought this afternoon weren’t that great. I decided to break one […]
Laura Kelley throws down the gauntlet..
This is more of a link than a post really and it comes on the back of a culinary challenge set by our friend Laura Kelley of the brilliant Silk Road Gourmet website. It’s really worth a read over there, Laura combines food with travel and history brilliantly. Her posts […]
A different way to make salsa verde..
Salsa verde means green sauce and like most recipes one cook’s interpretation is different from another’s. I’m a big fan of the sauce, I love its versatility and to be honest would eat it with near enough anything.
At its simplest it is little more than parsley, mint, garlic and […]
Childhood memories of eating liqourice…
I shall shortly be finishing one project and jumping staright into another for one of our regulrs, Laura Kelley of Silk Road Gourmet. It’s not for me to give away any info but needless to say she has given me a challenge which may, or may not include liqourice.
In preperation I […]