"No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence...
Pastéis de Nata. Portugese egg tarts.
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Kitchen Tales recipes
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Chicken soup with egg-lemon sauce [Avgolemono]
Back in the seventies, whilst transitioning between impecunious art student and manqué sculptor, I was pleased to...
Lemon Pavlova
As a former wine merchant, often as a guest on lengthy wine tours skipping from one European winery to another via...
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Potato Straw Cake [Pommes Paillasson]
Humour me if you will, and see if you can come up with the author: “…a sort of convergence of all the senses - the...
Spaghetti with Clams
“I’ve been picking it up and putting it down for weeks now. I can’t say I’ve actually cooked anything from it. More,...
Salmon en Croute with currants and ginger
Some years ago our son announced that he would, in line with previous years, be joining us in Norfolk for the...
Poached Chicken in Tarragon Sauce
“If you really like chicken, you like it poached. But poaching takes no pity on inferior birds” Jean-Claude Miéral....
Ravioli with Spinach and Ricotta
Looking back on my life in the kitchen I am forced to admit that of all the adventurous cuisines that I have elected...
Preserved Ginger Cake with Lemon Icing
"...take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated...
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Beef in Barolo [Brasato al Barolo]
“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food”. WC Fields I’m keen to get a few things cleared up. There are...
Classic Roast Partridge
Living in the East Anglian countryside, the game season offers some authentic free-range eating, but on a rising tide...
Baked Papparadelle with Pancetta & Porcini
Of all my food fantasies, I’ve long harboured a wish to become a discriminating, sharp-eyed, wild mushroom gatherer....
Thai Mussels
“I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own” - Michel de...
Haggis, Neeps and Tatties
"Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves” Michel de Montaigne (1533...
Traditional Seville Orange Marmalade
"I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to...