Looking for Heston’s roast chicken from How To Cook Like Heston? Read it here For my most recent birthday, two close friends bought me volume 1 of Heston Blumenthal’s In Search of Perfection. They were coming round for dinner so I thought it totally appropriate to serve up dinner from these pages. Heston is a genuine influence on me, a real […]
Read moreThis was another sample sent to me by the fine folks at Vineyard Fine Foods, who provided the very berry jam I was so fond of. Again it’s Essex people ploughing their own furrow. I’d scored some hearty lincolnshire sausages from my butcher and thought a splodge of chutney would just the ticket. How right I was – slightly spiced […]
Read moreI was sent a parcel of loveliness from the wonderful chaps over at Vineyard Fine Foods. They’re specialists in jams, pickles and chutneys operating out of Clacton, so how can I not support a local business? That said, this blog is written with full impartiality – if the product wasn’t any good, I would say so. I decide to slap some […]
Read moreAnother one from the slow cooker, this time the dull-named ‘savoury pork casserole’ which takes it’s inspiring title from the 1986 Russell Hobbs manual from which it came. I can’t even bring myself to write out a full recipe as it was so achingly boring, but it was pork, onions, peppers, button mushrooms, thyme and tinned tomatoes slow cooked together […]
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