Recipe: Spaghetti Vongole—an Italian classic, simple and elegantThis is a recipe that is distinguished for its elegance and simplicity, a classic spring and summer dish from Italy. True to Italian food...
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: 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...
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,...
Two classic sauces and two jars of anchovies…I went back to the exercise bars on the Quai d’Orsay this morning, only to have my plans scuppered once again—this time by the waters of...
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...