Category: Recipes
Recipes
Yesterday I made a much-improved version of my chicken in cider recipe. Regular followers of whatinterests.davidstrange.net will have seen some blurry pictures of it cooking and on my plate. …
Recipes
This is how pros make top mashed potato, and I am a freaking pro, alright. So, get 2 big Maris Piper potatoes per person and prick them all over …
Recipes
Roasting beef is really easy. You need instructions? Ok, here goes: Turn your oven up to 220 Celsius and roast the beef for 30 minutes. Then turn the oven …
Recipes
This recipe is so not mine I’d hate hate to actually repeat it here. I can post a link, though, to Heston Blumenthal’s brilliant spaghetti carbonara recipe (with handy …
Recipes
Right, this is serious cooking with the truffle. Buy the best chicken you can find, weighing about 2kg. Make sure it is up to room temperature before you start …
Recipes
Daniel was given a truffle on the condition we write up what we cooked with it. Seemed a good deal to me. The first thing we made was a …
Recipes
One meal we cook quite regularly is a simple affair, but it is one of those really pleasing things with are just a total hoot to eat: grilled prawns …
General
Tonight we held a modest little dinner party for my mother and stepfather. For a change, it wasn’t terribly wine-tastic, as the food was of the unsophisticated kind. It …
Recipes
I’m roasting a chicken, one of the excellent organic Sheepdrove Farm chicken that Waitrose sell. I am using a slight variation on my fool-proof recipe I posted back in …
Books
There are a myriad of cookery books all competing for our attention. I cannot claim I’ve read all of them, but I have experienced a few which any serious …
