A stomping Winter warmer here, inspired by a posting by Food Urchin, in turn plucked from the pages of the Moro Cookbook. Food Urchin is a jolly good blogger. Very entertaining, passionate about his food and nothing if not pragmatically resourceful, as he attempts to be fed daily by generous foodsters. A post of his popped up containing Two Soups, […]
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 […]
Read morePork belly is one of my absolute favourite meaty things. That crisp skin, tender meat and fleshy feel combined with it’s happy ability to take on bold flavours makes it an all-round winner.I saw some at the fabulous Essex Food Fair in Braintree I attended so snapped it up immediately – even going so far as to get the butcher to dig […]
Read moreI apologise for that photo, it makes it look really rough. It wasn’t though, honest! I was driving home on Sunday and was hit by a sudden wave of pasta-longing: I wanted carbonara. I haven’t had any in ages. So that was Monday’s dinner sorted. One small catch though; with my wife about 8 months pregnant barely-cooked egg didn’t seem […]
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