When the day finds you pushing a rock uphill, Sisyphus-like, motivation has dropped to a low ebb and one is markedly...
Simple Indian Fish Curry
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Curry Puffs
"When people enter the kitchen, they often drag their childhood in with them". From Home Cooking (1998) Laurie Colwin....
Lancashire Hotpot
Contrary to some popular beliefs, making a stew is rarely a success when the cook applies instinct alone, and if you...
Potted Shrimp
“The great British skill of potting meat and fish seems to have been for the most part forgotten by most of today’s...
Pear Chutney
Stars align and events coincide. More often than not, it happens when you’re looking the other way. I was recently...
Cheese Soufflé
We keep a few chickens, and give or take their seasonal mood swings; we get a lot of fine eggs. And for me there can...
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Grilled Chicken [Gai Yang]
In a media-dominated culinary world where speed and convenience outweigh depth and tradition, Thai cooking is often...
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Tuscan Biscotti [Cantucci di Prato]
“I have come to believe that anyone who walks into a kitchen should know how to make biscuits. Biscuits are the...
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Pears in White Wine [Pere al Vino Bianco]
When we moved to our present cottage, hidden in one of Norfolk’s isolated villages, we were told by long standing...
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Zucchini Soup [Soupe aux Courgettes]
“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.” Abraham Maslow. Some are born with a desire for...
Potato Focaccia
“It was only in the 1990’s that those soupy dragons, the Delias, the Nigellas and the Jamies, burst through the double...
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Arnhem Biscuits [Arnhemse Meisjes]
Roald Dahl died in the winter of 1990. During the last year of his life he worked with his wife Felicity, known always...
Maine Crabmeat Turnovers
Living only a short car ride from the North Sea, and often after a morning’s work, staring at this screen, I...
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Lasagne with Meat Sauce [Lasagne al Sugo]
“Translating from one language to another…is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the...
Granola
“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’ so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.” Steven...