This week, I've been experimenting with bread. Maybe experimenting with is too grand an expression - I've not been trying to fashion it into shoes, or using it to fuel a time machine - but I have been fiddling around with…
A friend of mine - let's call him Nick, because that's his name - maintains that he doesn't like tofu. Madness, I tell you, madness. How can anyone not like tofu? Sure I'm a bit biased, because I could quite happi…
You buy a loaf of bread. You use most of it. There's a couple of stale-ish slices leftover, so you chuck them in the freezer. You ignore them for a while. You leave them for a bit, then next thing you know, you look and it…
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a recipe for Japanese korokke, Western style potato cakes as reimagined by the land of the rising sun. I like korokke. Why should we restrict ourselves to ones based on the humble potato, I asked …
Did you know it was British Pie Week this week? Yes, like every food stuff worth its salt in need of a bit of PR puff, the pie has been given its own week of shameless self-promotion. Being a bit of a sucker for anything involvi…
For some reason, there were two nursery rhymes that terrified me as a child: the one that starts " hush little baby, don't say a word, mama's going to buy you a mocking bird ". It seemed like the saddest litany …
"What's so great about Masterchef ?" asks my other half whenever I put it on. "I don't get it. It's not as good as Come Dine with Me ." He's got a point. It isn't - but I can't turn it …
It's been a busy few weeks - busy in a good way, I hasten to add - so all the cooking I've been doing has been aimed at the quick and dirty side of things. This is a minimal effort recipe, but it's just the sort of th…
Sometimes, cooking is entertainment. Sometimes, however, after a long day at work, I just want to make something quickly without any of that chopping nonsense and shove it down my neck so I can get back to gently dribbling in fro…
According to Ben Franklin or Albert Einstein - depending on who you listen to - madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If that's the case, I go mad in the kitchen fairly regularly. I b…
I love Christmas unashamedly - the twinkly lights, the nights out, the time off work - but when it comes to the lacuna between the big day itself and the return to the office, I find myself a bit jaded on the food front. After ha…
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