This month’s recipes
Tag Archives: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
My cookbooks of the year and a couple for 2013
I found myself in Foyle’s yesterday, one of my two favourite shops for Christmas shopping (the other being Fopp, handily located just round the corner) and, once I had chosen the last few presents I wandered, as nonchalantly as a … Continue reading
Making Vegetables Sexy: Riverford’s Vegetable App
There has been a lot of chat about vegetarian-only cookery books recently, partly inspired by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s newest offering but also resulting from the financial and ethical requirements of our age: properly bred meat is expensive and who has £14 … Continue reading
Celeriac and apple soup and Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook
Although I am sure that a) if there was never another cookbook published, we would have plenty of recipes for several millennia, that, b) a bit like stories, there are only so many techniques and recipes that anyone can invent, … Continue reading
Lovely, simple blue cheese tart
One of the banes of living alone, or of cooking for one or two, is leftovers. Most of the time a recipe for four or six can be scaled down to two or three but, when it comes to baking, … Continue reading
Christmas begins…
Today has been a day devoted to food. I am spending Christmas with friends, so I thought I’d better make some contributions. First I soaked fruit for the second Dundee cake of the week (Delia’s), made mince pies (Delia’s mincemeat; … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Lepard, Delia Smith, Dorie Greenspan, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Simon Hopkinson
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The oven is your friend: roast pork belly with braised red cabbage
If ever there was a week when fast and easy food was required, it’s this one. Most people will be finishing work, or travelling, or writing and buying the last Christmas cards and presents or, poor sods, all of the … Continue reading
HFW’s celeriac soup with chilli confit
Thrift is very much on my mind at the moment. I suppose it has been on everyone’s mind for a few years but right now, as the world’s 8th largest economy (can you believe that? I couldn’t) edges nearer to … Continue reading
Failure…
A long time ago I was a lectrice in Nantes; what that means in practice is that you teach French university students how to speak English. In as far as we knew how to teach anything, being barely more than … Continue reading
HFW’s Fish Fight app and simple fried mackerel with garlic and bay
I’m a bit late today and for that I apologise. It’s mainly because I spent yesterday defrosting the fridge and, well, I was a bit overwhelmed with breadcrumbs, bits of unrecognisable protein and some half-thawed coconut milk. My appetite was … Continue reading
Posted in Cookery writers, Fast food fixes, Fish recipes, Food apps, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Tagged Allegra McEvedy, Bruno Loubet, Fish Fight app, fish recipes, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, mackerel recipes, Mark Hix, Martha Stewart, quick and easy recipes, Real Simple, This Morning
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Simon Hopkinson’s anchovy and onion tart
I’ve never been much of a fan of telly chefs; I remember vaguely watching the Galloping Gourmet prancing about a kitchen in the days of black and white television, I probably watched some Delia under duress in the seventies and … Continue reading
