Chicken Noodle Broth with ginger recipe and Ginger sauce recipe
Feast From the East Walking through the food market and brushing past piles of curry leaves that released their exotic scent into the warm...
Whisky Sour Recipe
when Christmas was cancelled ... Besides the finger numbing painfully cold weather, I love being in Scotland around the start of the...
San Miniato Truffle Festival and where to eat in Florence and Pisa
Diamonds are a chef’s best friend and a spoon with a stew “Darling, I am taking you to Italy and we are going to buy a diamond”! Although...
Rum, Rye and clementine sour
The spirits of Christmas… Did you have a very merry Christmas? I do hope so. Mine was spent nestled in Dorset trying to work my way...
Provençal pot roast pigeon with pastis, olives and rosé
La Vie en Rosé No my friends, the title is not yet another typo, I did mean to put an accent on the ‘e’ cleverly* transforming the famous...
Cherry Pie
Make America Bake Again To start with a completely different subject …. I would love you to come and watch my cookery demo at the Game...
Watermelon Daiquiri
Water, water everywhere, and plenty drops to drink. Doping, prima donna like behaviour, wild drunken nights out and faking injuries aside...
Poached eggs, avocado, tahini toast with ricotta and chilli flakes
The Brekky Prize I spent 4 hours rolling, folding, cutting and meticulously filling the seafood pasta. The sauce alone used three...
Venison pasties
Its raining......nothing. Skiing, when snowfall has been, poor gets rather tricky. Beach holidays without the sun are pretty miserable....
French style strawberry tart
When bribery and confection is the answer... With a twinkle in their eye (one can only assume as the conversation was via telephone) the...
Kind of revithada with chicken
A roast by any other name… As expected my latest job was a total fast, furious and fun weekend. Having flown across the Irish sea ( I will...
Wild garlic and lemon risotto and wild garlic pesto bread
If you go down to the woods today …. You are quite likely to find a host of lush green edible leaves… and me picking them ! Wild garlic,...
Recipe | Seville Marmalade
A pot worth Orange Obviously I bought the Seville oranges pretty much as soon as they came into season back in January. I got out and...
Cheese fondue
Round and round the garden…. I really wanted to call this post ‘the naked chef ‘ but there was a strong possibility of it slipping...
Spiced Sticky toffee apple and pear cake
Season Eatings... Season greetings to you all, I hope you had a very Merry Christmas! Currently at an airport waiting to board my next...
Recipe | Christmas Champagne Cocktail
Jingle Belles Armed with my lists, menus, timings, recipes, dietary requirement sheets and suitcase of red aprons I was totally ready for...
Garlic, garlic and Pheasant casserole
Phestive Pheasant Phun... “Welcome to Scotland, Its -6 °C”! the cheerful staff at Enterprise car hire chirped. I think if they had looked...
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