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
Fig Conserve
Our previous house is a short walk from our present cottage and although we moved home six years ago, we failed to leave the village (Our efforts to obtain telephone quotes from removal companies proved unexpectedly interesting given that the postal district we were...
Tomato Tonnato
“The tomato imparts its delicious taste, at the same time acid and slightly sweet, to so many sauces and dishes that it can fairly be classed among the best of condiments. Happy are those who understand how to use it judiciously” Ernest Verdier from Dissertations...
Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage
I escaped cabbage as often as I could when young. At lunchtime - obstinately called dinnertime at grammar school - the bouquet of vegetal flatulence would emanate from our canteen with the same familiarity as the precursory dinner bell. Our squadron of dinner ladies,...
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Fridge Cake [Tiffin]
“Tiffin, the midday meal, was a welcome break in the long Indian day; the pause for sustenance and prelude to a siesta…Tiffin was a domestic meal, a chance for husbands and wives to eat together, if they wished. Children were seldom present at the table, taking their...
Simple Indian Fish Curry
When the day finds you pushing a rock uphill, Sisyphus-like, motivation has dropped to a low ebb and one is markedly hungry, simplicity alongside familiarity can sometimes be the culinary saviour in the kitchen. Such is this dish, that once made, will automatically...
Curry Puffs
"When people enter the kitchen, they often drag their childhood in with them". From Home Cooking (1998) Laurie Colwin. Back in the early eighties, paying the rent any way I could with a specialist skill set barely warranting a c/v, I garnered some freelance income by...
Lancashire Hotpot
Contrary to some popular beliefs, making a stew is rarely a success when the cook applies instinct alone, and if you weren’t lucky enough to have the nearby knee of a Lancashire mother to learn at, finding a robust recipe for such country cooking is essential. One...