Dinner menu for Zoe

Zoe is one of my dearest friends and I made her this meal as a collection of what I know … More

20-minute-delicious-pasta (Kale, Garlic, Chilli and Parmesan Emulsion with Ricotta )

You don’t have to add sage to this – and it is perhaps a surprising addition – but my audience … More

An extraordinary and addictive combination of flavours. I am sure that a diluted beef stock cube or ready-made stock will … More

I have been learning to let things rest, actually in a number of ways… here I mean cooking, where I have been most … More

A week of eating in motorway service stations, a broken down car, three garages and arriving in North Shields where … More

I find there is a great qualitative (not only quantitative) effect when pasta is the same size as chickpeas. Eating them together … More

First I fold all of the washing that has been hanging in the flat over the backs of chairs and on … More

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

Pasta is something I’ve been meaning to cook for a while, but other dishes kept sidetracking me – for example, … More

After a long session teaching last week I stopped off at the superb Newington Green grocer to pick up a … More