All things related to the preparation and enjoyment of food.
Let them eat bread – A ‘rising’ prophet speaks: In the World of Food we have our deities and our devils. We have our Gordon Ramsays and we have our Fast Food temples. We also have our prophets – quiet people of vision who talk of better nutrition that could be on the horizon. We […]
So excited that in a few days Erik and myself and two friends are going to be guinea pigs for our local Artisan bread-maker, Patrick Crabtree, of Feast Rising Bakery. We first met Patrick at our local Farmer’s Market, near the Humber Bridge in East Yorkshire. His stall had sold out of his delicious bread […]
Recipe: Bruschetta for lunch, anyone? The kitchen garden is overflowing with luscious greenery and fruit and pods – peas, broad beans, mange tout and the start of the runner beans. We are spoiled for choice. So I came to the conclusion that the time was right for me to be brave and make a dish […]
Mexican Food (Chicken Fajitas Recipe) and Charlie Chaplin My first encounters with Mexican food were from a Tex-Mex perspective in America but then my parents brought me to England and I had to wait 20 years for the tortilla to float across the Atlantic with its cargo of contrasts – fish dishes from the Pacific […]
Recipe: Panzanella – Great Italian antipasti (Very Easy) My love of all things Italian (well, nearly all) was nurtured after me and my horse lived with an Italian family for two summers. But I have been lucky enough to have travelled by car through Europe and to Italy quite a few times. Lake Garda and […]
As we are going through a bit of a heatwave at the moment most foodie hearts and minds are turning to outdoor, sunshine, barbecue cooking. For most people Asian, Indian hot and spicy dishes are not on the agenda. But the other night we enjoyed a light, bright Indian Recipe dish, Chicken Tikka, that is […]
All Things Italian, (Especially an Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe) My introduction to Italian food (and an Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe) came about in, of all places, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. I had just become the proud owner of my first show-jumping horse, and both she and I spent the next two summer holidays living, working and […]
Recipe: All things Italian, especially Italian food (continued) Click here to read the introduction Still not that adventurous with food (and certainly not with Italian food) I wasn’t sure what to expect from Mrs Lanni’s cooking. On my first morning, after mucking out loads of stables, grooming both my horse and the Lanni’s huge international show-jumpers […]
Tackling a Kruk: In general Thai curries start with a curry paste to which you add other ingredients to ‘build’ your meal. There are only about 10 basic pastes and my favourite is the ‘Penang’ which is mainly suitable for chicken or dense fish. You can create this paste in a food processor but it […]
Tomato Soup Recipe – (or how I discovered it) Years ago, I was newly married, with a tiny baby, and what happens. An electricity strike! No oven for hours at a time. How to cook? Then my father saved the day and bought me a 2-ring gas burner (a camping stove) and my panic was […]
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