No pics – hands were too yukky and covered in chickeny stuff! I’ve wanted to support local butchers and producers for along time, but there’s never been a convenient way for me to do this. I want to help them, but they won’t meet me halfway with their 9am – 4pm opening times, and Saturday isn’t easy for me. Ideally […]
Read moreDelicious, savoury roast pork. The porky prince of Sundays. Except I had this on Saturday. Er….. I watched Jamie’s programme on British pork, and immediately raced out for some Freedom Food British shoulder of pork from Sainsbury’s. Can’t recall ever having roast with shoulder before, usually loin or leg. So it was an experiment. Following Jamie’s recipe, I scored the […]
Read moreOne of those “Feed Your Family For A Fiver” things from Sainsbury’s. I can’t help but embellish though. Two onions (two onions? Insanity!) and my old friend, sliced chorizo are fried together til crispy. Then tinned tomatoes, veg stock and some conchiglie are added. This is where I chuck in oregano and paprika, cos it just sounds too bland. Twenty […]
Read moreI saw this recipe on a low GI recipe website, but it was a little under-developed and felt sure it wasn’t going to quite come together. So I embedded a few ideas: a sofritto base of onion and carrots, but that wasn’t quite enough. I remember doing an Italian pasta sauce starting with basil stalks, infusing the whole thing with […]
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