Sausage rolls for Christmas! All butter puff pastry, pork sausage meat with extra grated onion and dried sage, egg glaze.

Plain Fish Curry; Potato and Greens Curry with Coconut Milk and Almonds; Raitha; Rice

I hadn’t really thought that I would be making supper this evening, but mum had a huge stack of Christmas … More

What I have made with shortcrust pastry lately

Normandy Apple Tart, from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, made using the last three apples from a tree in … More

The other night mum made … More

wise words from Zoe Jewell.

I was feeling unusually rested on Monday evening and, though containing four components (rosemary and olive oil haricot beans not … More

This is an Elizabeth David number from her excellent ’Italian Food’. I don’t usually put up other people’s recipes but … More

articulate the elegant eccentricity of chef Jeremy Lee, and easy, old-fashioned luxury of his restaurant marvellously. Quo Vadis’s theatre set … More

Last Christmas, my dad gave me a beautiful cooking book by Arabella Boxer, titled ’Arabella Boxer’s Book of English Food’ (grandmother … More