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
Croque Monsieur with George
"…you get a pretty good plate of food - and the Bellinis are just fine. They just cost a fuck of a lot". Anthony Bourdain on Harry’s Bar. It is far too long since I have squeezed around a table at Harry’s bar in Venice. At my last visit, a then unmarried George...
Steak and Kidney Pie
“I’ll be with you in the squeeze of a lemon” Oliver Goldsmith Mike and Sheila purchased a robust cottage in North Norfolk, with a garden more befitting the scale of a Victorian smallholding than a domestic backyard. The reason Mike required such a generous plot was to...
![Rice with Peas [Risi e Bisi]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_2623-e1627470115136-400x250.jpeg)
Rice with Peas [Risi e Bisi]
"To bless the holy Spring, which makes a garden a paradise, all I need is a soup bowl, a soup bowl of our own risi e bisi. There in hundreds of tiny little globes, I savour a tender green jewel of the earth scattered in a white sea of tender smiles" Domenico...
![Baked fish with potatoes – [Pesce al forno con le Patate]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_1206-400x250.jpg)
Baked fish with potatoes – [Pesce al forno con le Patate]
"Soup and Fish explain half the emotions of life" - Sydney Smith Back in the early eighties, before Tuscany was trampled underfoot by New Labour voters looking to buy a seconda casa, my family and a group of friends, took a large run-down villa in the hills near...
Grilled Pineapple with Lime, Chilli and Rosemary
'Sometimes I read a book with pleasure but detest the author"- Jonathan Swift Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s life spanned the final years of the sixteenth century and the dawning of the seventeenth. A vainglorious, amour propre painter and very much the prideful...
Summer Vegetable Tart
Frances Bissell was one of the most acclaimed cookery writers in England in the 1980's. She wrote regularly for The Times for over thirteen years, as well as Harpers Bazaar, the New York Times and Homes & Gardens. She also managed to fit in over two dozen...
![Ham Croquettes [Croquetas de Jamón]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_8934-400x250.jpg)
Ham Croquettes [Croquetas de Jamón]
It has been my good fortune to have been invited to so many wine producing regions across the globe, with the opportunity to sample not only the wines at source, but also the accompanying indigenous cuisine. Wine producers take great care in presenting traditional...