Notes and recipes from a Wine Merchant’s Kitchen
A tale of 250 of my family’s favourite meals.
Falling in love with exciting food and wine is a swift and easy process, providing it daily, at home for my family, is a lot more demanding. Notes and recipes from a Wine Merchant’s Kitchen looks back on the successes and mishaps of a life spent casting around for culinary discoveries.
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Recipes
Potato Focaccia
“It was only in the 1990’s that those soupy dragons, the Delias, the Nigellas and the Jamies, burst through the double doors of their steamy lairs to become not simply local heroes of the urban middle class, but tabloid bestriding ogres of popular culture. I think it...
![Arnhem Biscuits [Arnhemse Meisjes]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IMG_1720-400x250.jpg)
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 as Liccy, in writing a family cookbook. This is a book that charts the comings and goings of family and friends, a variety of their cooks, shopping...
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 unexpectedly find myself yielding to a culinary lunar pull from the coast. Think on the land based equivalents; bacon sandwiches, take-away curries, chocolate...
![Lasagne with Meat Sauce [Lasagne al Sugo]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200912_145655-400x250.jpg)
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 figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them” Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote It is suggested that with any popular food,...
Granola
“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’ so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.” Steven Wright I’ve never really ‘got’ breakfast as a domestic routine, although I do enjoy a home cooked breakfast on rare occasions, especially in a...
Penne alla Carbonara
As a parent I have always wished for my children to grow up thinking independently, become loving partners and eventually supportive parents. I have also encouraged them to be happy, thoughtful cooks too. Never more so than when they first left home. Early Autumn is...
![Fish cakes [Tod Mun]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IMG_0418-400x250.jpg)
Fish cakes [Tod Mun]
"Plain cooking cannot be entrusted to plain cooks" - Countess Morphy The difference between catering and cooking is as wide as the berth I'd give a KFC outlet. David Tanis is a good chef. He's also a good home cook. Few chefs possess the expansive imagination to...