Restaurant food at home
It’s been that time of year when we’ve been on our annual cycling/gastronomy tour of France. This year we returned to the Loire Valley. This was our first holiday together 8 years ago. A saga I’ll never forget as when I arrived at CDG airport, AirFrance had kindly left my […]
Life has been kind of busy lately. You can probably tell from my infrequent updates. No excuses, but I’ve been promoted at work and had to travel 100 miles a day to a new base. Luckily, I’m now back at my home base after six months and actually have more […]
The French is a fine dining restaurant at The Midland hotel in Manchester city centre. We’ve been wanting to go since it opened under new direction in 2013. Simon Rogan (L’enclume, Fera) has overseen the restaurants transformation. We were lucky enough to visit L’Enclume with its two michelin stars a […]
I’ve been quite quiet recently on the blogging front, no real reason except life has been really busy. I’m spending a lot of flying days away from base at the minute. Which means when I do get home there are loads of jobs to do and dedicating much of it […]
This is a simple dish, making the best of each ingredient. How many of us buy celery for a ragu and then have twice as much languishing about in the larder for two weeks? Guilty! One great use of it is in a creamy salad like this blue cheese and […]
It is very rare that I carte blanche copy a recipe. I couldn’t help myself though after seeing Simon Rogan on Saturday Kitchen. This roasted cabbage, mushroom teriyaki and truffled mayonnaise looks innocent enough, but is one of the best tasting things I’ve ever made. We went to his famous […]
Sometimes it’s good to be challenged in life. Trying to make a vegetarian gluten free lasagne without pasta is one of those. There are some gluten free lasagne sheets on the market, but quite frankly, they’re disgusting. Hence I thought I’d make my own. It’s a fairly simple thing to […]
As much as I like playing about in the kitchen, it is so gratifying to create equally delicious food in next to no time. The most time consuming part of this duck and hummus dish was peeling the squash. Most dishes these days go a little further than meat […]
There’s a chocolate revolution going on under our feet. It’s called bean to bar. Artisanal crafters have been buying sacks of cocoa pods and going through the whole process of roasting, grinding, conching and tempering the beans. This has actually been going on for a few years, but more […]