It’s a new year! 2014 was packed with stuff, like my first book, a trot round Chinatown, playing with a sous-vide machine and so much more. There was a conscious change of focus on my part too, blogging less direct recipes of chefs and working on my own creations much more. It definitely results in less visitors, but I’d like […]
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Every year on Christmas Eve I like to serve up a joint of gammon, that inevitably gets served up on Boxing Day as yummy leftovers. I’ve got a ton of gammon recipes on here, such as honey roast, salted caramel and more. This year I had an excess of champagne (disaster!) so I just had to use it. The process is […]
Read more“Wasssuuuup” as Simon Mayo greets of late. There’s been loads gong on late, some things made it to the blog and some things didn’t. Here’s a quick round up of odds and ends. A lot o’ hot choc – these hot chocolate drinks from Hans Sloane are all truly excellent. Rather than some mysterious powder, you get little nuggets of chocolate […]
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I love a new cookbook: that moment when you flick rapidly through the pages, firing post-it notes into it for future meals. This year has seen new releases from Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge, more from Ottolenghi and peeks behind the inner workings of Dabbous and Heston’s brain. Hey, even yours truly got involved! There was lots of choice out there. […]
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