Our local greengrocer has had his shelves piled high with delicious winter vegetables recently, so expect a variety of recipes featuring sprouts, turnips, winter cabbage and parsnips over the next few weeks. His beetroots have ended up in various juices and stews recently, and the pick of the crop has been this universally applauded soup. [...]
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Beetroot soup
December 6, 2010 – 20:49
Scratching a living
November 27, 2010 – 19:56
Pork scratchings are just the very best cocktail snack. Better than the humble salted peanut. Better even than fat green olives. Even those ethereally green ones they serve at Cecconis. For some time it has been a medium to long term plan of mine to develop my pork scratching preparation technique to such an advanced [...]
Two times chickpeas
November 23, 2010 – 18:03
This week I had planned to work on some really pared back recipe ideas (which I am still planning to do) but I had a big batch of chickpeas cooked up, so here are a couple of tasty little treats that can be knocked up in virtually no time at all. Spiced orange chickpeas and [...]