Told you I was only making bread. Though Liam did most of this. We were having a jambalaya and inspired by Simon this was the natural compliment. I ordered corn meal from Tesco, not realising it’s actually polenta, which I have tons of anyway. Ho-hum. Otherwise, it’s bread-baking as usual except for the addition of, well, polenta. Doing it again […]
Read moreI bought a bread book the other day. I’ve made little else ever since. I had to try making bagels, such a satisfying and fun food, and so versatile. The bread recipe is fairly standard, flour, yeast, water, yadda yadda, leave to prove etc. But the difference is just before baking to poach the batter in boiling water. It made […]
Read moreThis poor, poor recipe: it got bumped for weeks and weeks off the menu as other things came up, we got home late, someone invited us out… and finally we made it. It was very nice, luckily. The lamb was supposed to be koftas but mega-juicy onions didn’t allow the meat to bind into kebabs. So instead the lamb mince […]
Read moreA dreadfully-named dish this one; but it inverts a standard cooking cornerstone in a way that really baffled me. It came from a Weight Watchers book of all places, though it has dubious dietary heritage. Rather than the time-honoured tradition of: sweat onions in oil, then add meat, the method for this is to dry-fry mince until it starts to […]
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