A colleague recently gave me some almond confectionary called Turrón after a holiday in Spain. Scandalously, I have taken to having…
Rosemary, lemon zest, beef broth and butter emulsion with mushrooms
An extraordinary and addictive combination of flavours. I am sure that a diluted beef stock cube or ready-made stock will…
Flourless savoury muffins
These light flourless savouries were an ad hoc solution to fulfil the promise to make gluten free versions of sausage…
Eating out alone when on a writing holiday | Recipe for saffron potatoes
I decided to go out for an elegant lunch on my first day in Palermo. I put on a black…
good enough instructions + anchovy pasta
I have been learning to let things rest, actually in a number of ways… here I mean cooking, where I have been most…
A List of… Peas
I have a new piece out on At The Table in a series I write about food objects and memory, with…
Watermelon and Tomato Salad
I first had a version of this salad a few years ago at Stevie Parle‘s restaurant Rotorino, when my friend…
Feast menu for a summer birthday
It was my mother’s 60th birthday recently and I made her a dinner for 16 people to celebrate. I wanted…
Breakfast variations: Fried courgette flowers with poached strawberries
Undeniably excessive I suppose. We didn’t have any bread and I didn’t want tomatoes and eggs again, so I picked…
Heavy salad
Time calls for a heavy salad when we expect warmth but still cannot shed our socks; when it’s summer time…
Dinner Document 