Why trust a chef from Yorkshire for a recipe for Italian tomato sauce? Well Marco Pierre White is no ordinary Yorkshireman. He is half Italian as he will tell you any chance he get. And he was taught this recipe for Pomodoro sauce, tomato sauce by a three-star Michelin Italian chef and one of the very best to do it. […]
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I’ve been working my way through lots of of Marco Pierre White’s recipes in the past year. But now it’s time for his most notorious recipe. Pig Trotters. I’m adapting his recipe from the book White Heat. This is a recipe Marco absorbed from his mentor Pierre Koffmann, hence the name. They worked together at La Tante Claire and this […]
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Marco Pierre White, the original enfant terrible of British cuisine, once said, “Perfection is lots of little things done well.” Nowhere is this philosophy more evident than in his beloved steak au poivre. I investigated the many versions of his pepper steak recipe, weaving together the best elements to create a dish that’s indulgent, fiery, and utterly satisfying. Steak au […]
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I look back over 2023 with some of my favourite posts and projects at BigSpud HQ.
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