Pears Caramel with Bay Leaf Custard

I like to have this with chilled custard and warm pears. It’s both deeply comforting and very elegant. You could … More

Charred Onion Salad

We ate this Turkish-style onion salad with Claudia Roden’s excellent and very simple recipe for rice with red lentils from … More

Warm through a layer of leftover rice (it could be plain boiled rice – I had rice with butter, onion, … More

I didn’t have much to go in this soup apart from potatoes (no other vegetables or bacon) and it was … More

A recipe made using what I anticipated wouldn’t be quite ideal ingredients, but which were in fact, very ideal. We … More

(I first published this piece via TinyLetter) * I arrive at the Guildhall Library in the City of London to … More

This is a very good, dessert-like chocolate cake. It is very easy to make and doesn’t involve any creaming of … More

This was a very last-minute concoction to accompany pork chops, and it was delicious. You could have it with many other … More

This recipe arose because Alex Jackson of the restaurant Sardine cooked me tomatoes stuffed with a similar meatball mixture. I … More

Menu Chez Panisse Chicken Wings Onions BBQ’d in their skins with crème fraîche and fresh mint BBQ’d vegetable salad An … More