I really hate it when food writing gets a little bit smutty and uncouth because there’s no need. But I also understand that – ‘I’m about to give you a meat rub that will change your life’ – is a sentence that is both smutty and uncouth yet wholly necessary at the same time. Let … Continue reading BROWN SUGAR MEAT RUB (AND A QUICK LEEK & POTATO SOUP)
There are many recipes that I have taken away with me from the kitchen of my adolescence. And while the majority of these recipes include soups, stews, and roasts, I will never forget one Christmas being handed a Tupperware box of what looked like a syrupy purple coleslaw and being told to nuke it in … Continue reading COCA COLA CABBAGE
Family folklore has it that Yorkshire pudding batter has always been somewhat of a mystique in my family. It run the whole gamut of complexity from the picturesquely perfect to the plain pain in the arse, with so many trials and tribulations in the middle. It’s a strange concept too as you’d think that following … Continue reading TADPOLES IN THE HOLE
Everybody’s got a lasagne recipe Even the shakiest of kitchen-phobes somewhere in the depths of their culinary cranium, have a lasagne recipe. I often hear people who aren’t the most confident of cooks, punctuate their anti-kitchen confessions with ‘But I do make a good lasagne!’ And I’m not mad at this. I think so long … Continue reading A REALLY RELIABLE LASAGNE
Like an appreciation for early nights and not being able to get out of a chair without groaning, bread baking came to me a little later in life. And thank God it did. I never want to give unnecessary steps to my readers because I never want to waste your time, energy, or money but … Continue reading HONEY BEER BROWN BREAD
Guys, this stew is fixed to make your week. I was cooking for a friend that really doesn’t care about food. The kind that only eats to live. The kind that eats what they’re given and never comments on the taste – good, bad or indifferent. I made this stew because it was easy. The … Continue reading BLOOD ORANGE, CHORIZO & BUTTERBEAN STEW
Every year, for about 6-split seconds in early December, when the nights are cold and optimism is nigh, I contemplate making a Christmas Cake. There is something so festively sexy about that syrupy cake that is crammed full of dried fruits that lets me know that Christmas is here, but by the grace of Santa … Continue reading CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE
Chocolate BBQ sauce, he said. Eyebrows raise. It’s not as weird as you think. Think of Mole Sauce, that extremely enchanting, glossy Mexican sauce built around chillies and chocolate that lift enchiladas to a whole other level. Think about it and it makes TOTAL sense. Dark chocolate – and I mean GOOD dark chocolate – … Continue reading STICKY CUMIN & CHOCOLATE BBQ RIBS
Bread recipes scare me. Mostly because I see a lot of ‘Do this… let it rise… do this again… let it rise more… sleep for 17.5 hours… do it again…’ and it tests my nerves. I am also sad that there is seldom ONE bread recipe that is heaven sent. The one template you can … Continue reading LEMON & MUSTARD SODA BUNS
Last night I made the easiest but the TASTIEST soup I think I have ever made. That is no mean feat given I have many several soup recipes on my belt, but this one took the crouton. It was even tastier in part given its simplicity. I kind of sat there eating it like ‘… … Continue reading THYME TOMATO & ROAST PEPPER SOUP
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 