by Gareth Groves
Bollito Misto is one of the great Italian dishes. An (almost) one pot dish, its name can be translated as “Mixed Boiled Dinner”. Luckily, it tastes better than it sounds. It is essentially a big pot of different meats – we used ox tongue, brisket, chicken and cotechino sausage – slowly poached with some vegetables until …
By Willie Lebus
You need to be hungry to attempt this. Much better for lunch, otherwise you’ll be up all night. This is a Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning recipe. Allow some time and really enjoy the deeply relaxing aspect of assembling the ingredients and the anticipation of Sunday lunch.
For 7/8 people.
Ingredients -
- Saturday
2 decent oxtails
1/2lbs beef shin
A small piece of saucisson sec or Parma ham hock
10 …
by Willie Lebus
I am deeply in love with redcurrants. They have an aromatic searingly fresh and original flavour. I was worried that this might be compromised by adding my homegrown red chillies. How wrong could I have been! I couldn’t find any recipes incorporating two of my most favourite ingredients. I made two batches of my jelly: one was quite mild, the other a tad hot! …
by Gareth Groves
Last Saturday was National Cherry Day, but of course, you knew that, didn’t you? I was probably one of the few people in the country who spent the day immersed in all things cherry. The day before we had picked about 10kg of Kordia cherries from our rented tree in Northiam, East Sussex. I should think we managed to get at least …
by Gareth Groves
A couple of weeks back I was happily tweeting away whilst making my annual batch of mango chutney when the lovely Kavey of the Kavey Eats blog asked if I would write the recipe as a guest post for her site. I was delighted to oblige.
These gorgeous mangoes are coming towards the end of their season but you might be …
by Erica Fowler
Wine tasting and food and wine matching is something I take for granted having done it on a daily basis for the best part of ten years it seems second nature. When hosting wine tastings I often have people saying ‘it tastes like wine’ which is totally understandable, as it usually does. I can vaguely remember the first few wine tastings I …
by Gareth Groves
Smallholding by proxy is fun. As mentioned in a previous post, I have adopted a rare breed pig that will soon be filling my belly and my freezer and we also rent a cherry tree. The concept for the latter is devastatingly simple. Cherry farmer, Michael Dallaway, rents out trees in his orchard in Northam, East Sussex. From Michael’s point of view, …
By Gal Zohar, http://zoharwine.wordpress.com/
Relocating is a new word in my lexicon. Four years ago on the plane over to the big sun to the big smoke we where moving to London. Times have changed and we are not moving back but relocating. At least we learned something over these past few years.
But my London times are here …
By Lucy Bridgers, http://winefoodotherpleasures.blogspot.com/
Cheese and wine
I feel lucky, as through my work, I have had some pretty amazing experiences of cheese. While working in book publishing I had the fortune of editing a comprehensive guide to cheese by Juliet Harbutt which really exposed me to this fascinating, complex and utterly delicious subject. Wine has …
Despite speculative emails and many phone calls in search of a reservation, I have never been to Noma, El Bulli or the Fat Duck – the top three in the latest list of the World’s Top 50 Restaurants which were announced last night.
In fact, I’ve only been to one of the three restaurants in the UK to make the list, and to three overall. As such, I am hardly qualified to pass …
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