Recipes

This healthy, and easy, recipe can be used as a dip or a spread or as a side dish and makes a perfect alternative to, less environmentally friendly, mashed avocado…

A good British cheese alternative to Pecorino, Parmesan or Manchego

Easy to make and especially good with British cheeses.

It’s been a good year for growing cauliflowers. They taste outstandingly good too, but what to do with them? Here is a recipe for a good old-fashioned cauliflower baked in…

Four kinds of garlic to know and some ways to use them. Three Cornered Garlic  A wild plant which appears in early spring and is often found in roadside verges,…

An easy yet delicious gravy with a simple roast chicken. Add some seasonal greens and a dish of baked sourdough crumbs to scatter over the chicken to round it all…

Red gurnard is a lovely fish and it’s available in February but if you can’t get it, red mullet or hake could be used instead. Sole of Discretion is an…

Christmas is coming and if you plan to be cooking over the holiday period there are lots of suggestions in these pages to encourage you to perhaps try something new,…

A nice easy cake to have perhaps at the end a meal. It is quite a damp cake and so is best made on the day you want to eat…

Almost everything cooked slowly in one pot. Beef short ribs are one of the cheaper meat options and become meltingly tender when cooked in this way which includes some roasted…