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...
Recipe: Thai winter soup [vegan]This recipe started life as a curry in the offing, but then it was snowing outside and I thought what better than a really warming and...
Recipe: Hung Shao style pork [easy]Many cheaper cuts of meat are wrongfully neglected in our cooking because they tend to regarded as unpleasantly fatty or difficult to...
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: Sautéed plum and pecan salad [Vegan]Fruits work so well in salads, don't be put off by the idea of combining sweet with savoury. This is a brilliant warming salad for a cold...
Walking through a painting...It was one of those really beautiful days—the clouds hung low and heavy in the sky, obscuring the view of Montmatre from my window, but...
Recipe: Fragrant tabouleh with mixed vegetables [vegan]Tabouleh is a North African/Middle Eastern dish consisting mostly of parsley and bulgar wheat—a near relative of cous-cous—it makes a...
Recipe: Welsh Rarebit, my way—proper cheese on toast!Welsh Rarebit has fallen somewhat out of fashion, perhaps because people remember it as a slimy, heavy affair not really dissimilar to...