Pigs are pets not pork…. I am not sure I should admit how delighted I was to be woken by a handsome stranger quietly standing at my door....
Toasted buttered cobnut salad with garden plums, steamed marrow and Comte cheese
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Lunch
Lobster linguine with courgettes, cream and chopped rocket
A little lobster... Debating on what should be my final postcard from Boston for this summer I dithered greatly. Blogging as I had...
Hickory Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs
Smoke gets in your eyes… You might want to get your credit cards out now as you are all going to want one. Or better still start rummaging...
Recipe|Lobster Bisque
The Lobster Swapping the tempestuous Arthur for a leisurely ride on Charles made for a pleasant change of pace. The fireworks didn’t come...
Recipe | Deep fried zucchini flowers with Prosecco batter, stuffed with ricotta, mint and anchovies
The Italian Job... The Tuscan hills bulged like the limbs of a Botticelli woman. The roads delightfully twisted through these curves and I...
Recipe|Crab cakes with chilli sauce
Feeling crabby ? I have just come back from cooking for a delightful dinner party in the magical city of Edinburgh. Having recently made...
Recipe |Never out of fashion dressings
A different kettle of bird.. The beautiful birds strutted their stuff across the wild Scottish landscape, unflappable despite the...
Pan fried duck breast with fennel, hazelnut and orange salad and a white bean, sausage and tomato salad
Getting your ducks (and goats, sheep, pigs and alpacas) all in a row Well here we all are the other side of Easter. I hope disrespectable...
Slow roast shoulder of pork sandwich with rhubarb and radish salad
Happy as a pig in a bun…. Blossom is exploding all over Wiltshire at the moment with magnolia flowers and cherry blossoms bursting out...
Recipe | Asparagus and Wild Garlic Galette AND a Rhubarb Ramos Gin Fizz
Paris, the city of light, love and lunch... I confess the trip to Paris was a jolly. It involved lots of walking to counter...
Boxty
In Dublin's fair city, there is something delicious for breakfast…. So the conversation went a little like...
Recipe | Pappardelle pasta with braised pheasant , cavolo nero, cream and nutmeg
I am pretty sure it was The Spaniel, in the Billiard Room with the Cream Tea that left a trail of muddy paws for the house keeper to...
Recipe | Warm Pigeon, persimmon and pomegranate salad with sumac and walnuts
A Journey into the Judean desert No matter what I do it always somehow ends up revolving around food, even a trip into the desert....
Roast Turbot with dill and lemon yogurt
London's Calling... I had assumed pheasants were not the brightest of creatures but judging by the number of them...
Postcard 13, a tricky treat for Halloween
Are you sitting uncomfortably......................? Good. Then let me begin. For my Halloween special I thought you might...
Recipe | Poached Langoustines with apple, fennel and radish salad, aioli and lemon
The charms of Chichester.. “There is nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.......” so Ratty exclaimed...
Recipe | Roast porcini with anchovy breadcrumbs and Chanterelles with lardons and cheese toasts
The fun-gi gets chosen..... This week I find myself waking up with stunning views across a vineyard in the Languedoc Roussillon region of...
Recipe | Tart
The collective noun for tarts? Answers on a postcard... The last garlic bulb has been plucked from the string, my suitcase is...
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