Before we start, here’s a video version of this Actifry roast potatoes recipe: It seems obvious, but despite (a) owning a Tefal Actifry and (b) loving a roast potato it’s never occurred to me to make an Actifry roast potato. I tried it and what do you know – they’re really worth it! Just rinse your potatoes to get rid […]
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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 […]
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England may be out of the World Cup, but there’s still lots of excuses to throw a football party. For people who enjoy a cooking challenge, it presents opportunities to burrow through the regional cookbooks and get inspired. Will you serve the Nigerian jollof rice? German Bratwurst? Australian shrimp? Ghanaian fufu? Here’s a pair of great Latin-flavoured dishes in celebration of […]
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We’ve just seen the back of national chip week for another year! That’s the excuse you needed to have chips tonight sorted then. In celebration of this auspicious occasion, Albert Bartlett sent me some Innovator potatoes to try out. They’re a floury general-purpose type so I cooked ’em a bunch of ways. My favourite were these beef dripping-soaked gold nuggets […]
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