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
Beetroot Jelly with Dill and Horseradish Cream
It is amazing how many adults loath beets - although puréed, strained beets are a staple of the baby-food industry. Perhaps in later life the inner child in the grown-up jumps to its feet and says -“You expect me to eat something magenta?” More Home Cooking (1995)...
![Linguine with Crab [Linguine al Granchio]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IMG_0394-400x250.jpg)
Linguine with Crab [Linguine al Granchio]
“It is an ancient town that stands Upon a lofty cliff of mouldering sands; The sea against the cliffs doth daily beat, And every tide into the land doth eat” John Taylor Some 12 miles from our cottage sits the Victorian seaside town of Cromer. Although perhaps past...
Eve’s Pudding
"You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?" Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin I like cookbooks and I like cookbooks that contextualise their recipes. They are more familiar than airport novels...
Roast Butternut Squash soup with Cinnamon
My relationship with soup began badly. Like many food writers before me I would like to record that my life’s interest in food began at my mother’s side, or at least on the knee of a mythical nonna, but it didn’t. My mother, like so many women of her generation, had...
Chicken and Broccoli gratin
On my shelves sit two little independent cookbooks that didn’t begin their life in a journalist’s kitchen, buttressing a fashionable metropolitan restaurant or providing yet another hackneyed spin-off from a television show. Their journey began in a water driven...
Parmesan Biscuits
I am not what could be described as ‘sporty’. Football provides no interest, save for my curiosity of how players manage to amass more income per week than I ever pulled down in a year. The very mention of cricket and I slip into a light coma, and short of its opening...
![Parsi Tomato Chutney [Tamota ni Chatni]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_1519-400x250.jpg)
Parsi Tomato Chutney [Tamota ni Chatni]
With a reasonable climate throughout the summer and more than a fine crop of tomatoes in the greenhouse; Black Opal, Marzano, Marmande, Ailsa Craig, Red Zebra and Alicante, I was reaching out for additional recipes. Sometimes you spot one and you know it is faultless...