This weekend, I wondered what to do with a joint of pork. I spent an hour working through my cookbooks, and used Palette de porc a la biere from Anthony Bourdain’s “Les Halles” Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking as a starting point.
Here’s my interpretation, with quantities adjusted for using the wrong [...]
We were due to be in Cornwall for this bank holiday weekend, visiting family. For reasons not for this blog, we haven’t got away.
But the visit got me to thinking about the food I’d be eating when we were there. Pasties, of course. Proper meaty, peppery Cornish Pasties. And there’s all the fish, I guess [...]
I think I need to be clear before I start this moan/rant/worry - whatever it is. I love roast pork, when done properly. That’s when it’s juicy, not dry.
But what do you do with a joint of pork? The traditional crackling bit does horrendous things to my diet, so I’m always look-out for something creative [...]
For someone trying to lose weight, like myself, the artificial sweetener, Aspartame, is a fact of life. Something that’s pretty unavoidable without some serious lifestyle change considerations.
As my friend Loli once remarked, my consumption of diet cola is so out of kilter with my advocacy of things Organic, and active avoidance of too many processed [...]
This has been around for a while, but it’s one of my favourite books about food. In fact, if you’re crazy enough about food to be reading this site, you owe it to yourself to get hold of a copy.
The Man Who Ate Everything is a collection of Steingarten’s writings for American Vogue. It’s [...]
Pat Chapman\’s Vegetable Curry Bible by Pat Chapman
Don\’t Sweat the Aubergine: What Works in the Kitchen and Why by Nicholas Clee
Soho Cooking by Alastair Little
In Search of Perfection by Heston Blumenthal
Gordon Ramsay\’s Sunday Lunch: And Other Recipes from the \ by Gordon Ramsay
