I had a great big clear out of the freezer and unearthed heaps of lamb and pork. Great big lamb shanks and chunks of pork all solid as rock and crying to be used up. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to make a slow cooked pork and lamb ragu. Kinda traditional style, but I used a few Knorr flavour pots […]
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Season 5 of the Great British Bake Off starts Wednesday 6th August! The entrants have been announced. There’s the wacky one: The older techie one: And the beardy one: But best of all, Mel & Sue will be there, plus Paul & Mary. Always a strangely-enchanting watch, even if you don’t care about cakes or bread. If this lot gets you inspired […]
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I love reading In Search of Heston’s recipes. United by our passion for all things Blumenthal-flavoured, he goes the whole hog in attempting to recreate Heston’s entire recipe index. And he really pushes the boat out to make them as accurately to the original text as possible. One of his recent posts was Heston’s fish pie. I’ve kind-of blogged about this […]
Read moreFifty Ways With Spuds It’s been a whirlwind few weeks at Big Spud towers. About a month ago I self-published my first ebook, and would-you-believe-it, it’s all about potatoes. Fifty Ways With Spuds features fifty recipes (no!) of marvellous things you can do with potatoes. Five lovely people have given it 5 stars. It’s available on Amazon now. Noodle! While we’re talking […]
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