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Recipe: Roast leg of lamb with garlic and anchovies

I’m going to take this opportunity to say that lamb occupies an overrated position in the culinary calendar when you consider the...

Recipe: Beautiful Roast Chicken (including trussing your bird), with jus

There really are few greater things that a well roasted chicken. On a recent episode of the Kitchen Cabinet, a member of the audience...

The Last Meal of Francois Mitterand

Warning: This post contains an image that some may find distressing. This afternoon to Pere Lachaise, the famous cemetery set on a hill...

The Countess and the Cauliflower—a baroque fairytale.

Once upon a time, in a land of castles and villages, rolling hills and verdant fields, there were no restaurants, no bistros and no...

Recipe: Dark chocolate and vanilla parfait, with caramelised pecans—a Valentine's Day treat!

Parfait is quite close to ice cream, but to call it ice cream does it a disservice (like calling a Concorde a passenger jet)—it is far...

Food and friends

An old friend was coming over for dinner, so I consulted my copy of Larousse Gastronomique—the veritable bible of cooking, which weighs...

Recipe: Broccoli soup, with roquefort—a warming winter soup [vegetarian option]

Broccoli was, for a long time, a vegetable that I really struggled with. My memories of it were filled with sad, overcooked, plain boiled...

Recipe: Individual lemon meringue pots—or cheat's lemon meringue pie! [Vegetarian, easy, light]

A really good lemon meringue pie should have a nice biscuity pastry base, topped with a really tangy lemon filling and sweet, cloud-like...

Recipe: Crêpes with parma ham, asparagus and hollandaise—perfect for supper or as a starter.

Hollandaise sauce has gone out of fashion somewhat, partly because it is seen as something of a faff to make, when really it is quite...

Recipe: Mayonnaise, with asparagus and poached eggs—a classic sauce and a good way to show it off! [

Homemade mayonnaise really is incredibly easy to make once you know how. As well as being a classic sauce with a thousand different uses,...

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