Midweek BBQ

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

One pan boat dinner

My parents have a small boat and we spent two days on it sailing around the east coast last week, … More

Lunch menu Saturday 10th August 2019 Piedmontese peppers Pork tonnato, tomato salad and Sam’s bread Apricot galettes and ice cream … More

A few months ago Rebecca Tamás asked if I had plans for summer solstice; this conversation came to glorious fruition on Friday … More

I made this as a starter / canapé. Would be enough for 4 people I think (though there were three … More

I made these carrots to go with roast loin of pork stuffed with herbs and garlic, served with polenta. I … More

When making the aïoli yesterday I couldn’t be bothered to find a knife to cut up the garlic, or to … More

I snipped 3 violet-coloured thistles from a ginormous artichoke plant that was swaying in the June breeze. I decided to … More

OK – so this post is from August 2016 from another website I don’t really maintain. I should have put … More

Rachel Roddy, whom I adore, published this recipe for tomato sauce in her Guardian column a few months ago, to … More