Yet another Jamie winner, and yet another triumph from my friendly neighbourhood butcher. There’s three distinct parts here: pork chop, spicy cabbage, and roast swede. Swede first: peeled and diced, tossed with salt, pepper, oil and thyme, left to roast for 45 mins. Then the pork. I made a rub first by grinding fennel seeds, paprika, salt and pepper […]
Read moreThe humble roast chicken is anything but. It’s a real crowd-pleaser. Vegetarians, I feel genuinely sorry that you’ll never know the succulent, meaty joy of a crisp, moist roast chicken. How I cook it depends on what’s to hand. Here it’s stuffed with a chopped onion, which evaporates sweet perfume throughout the bird, and liberally rubbed with olive oil, salt, […]
Read moreWow, this was a Jamie great. Very pleased with the results. Started with chicken legs: skinned, then trimmed the meat off and diced. The skin was then put into a hot pan and allowed to render the fat out. Then browned the leg meat, and added onion, garlic and celery. Once this had all sweated a little I chucked in […]
Read moreRisotto is a deeply calming dish, both to cook and especially to eat. What amazes me about risotto is that it starts the same but can end so many ways depending on what you add. It starts with: onions fried gently, then the heat turned up as your arborio or carnaroli rice is added. A handy tip for measuring rice: […]
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