Often times, marmalade straddles the thin line of retro cool and old lady cringe. It’s a line I straddle like a rodeo clown. I straddle it with a smile. A good marmalade is like a man with good money, good manners and good sense. So difficult to come by. In fact, the only good marmalade … Continue reading CARROT & GINGER MARMALADE
A good 90% of this website is chicken based. I could be a colonel. But every time you see a recipe for chicken here, you can normally count on it being roasted. You could bet good money on it. And if you want to make even MORE money, you can bet that it was also … Continue reading BEER & CARAWAY GLAZED CHICKEN WITH MINI JACKETS & BLUE CHEESE SAUCE
I got bored of food. Yes. You read correctly. About a year or so ago I was bored of food. As somebody that writes about food (or more specifically, the cooking of it), finding yourself in a stale creative space is not ideal. Not at all. But I found that my entire approach to food … Continue reading MUSHROOM & CHESTNUT SLIDERS WITH QUICK APRICOT MUSTARD CHUTNEY
Having something with ‘burnt garlic’ in it doesn’t sound particularly sexy, does it? Conjures up images of charcoal. But what I mean by burnt garlic here is a whole cloves of garlic cooked in a low oven so that’s is caramelises into a velvet smooth golden purée. And it tastes every bit as amazing as … Continue reading BURNT GARLIC HUMMUS
In my humble opinion, everything savoury tastes better with pesto on it. And you are not able to palm me off with a jar. Absolutely not. Not when it’s THIS easy to make guys. I’m not one for a jar of pesto. It’s always this dish water green residue that browns within milliseconds of cracking … Continue reading DRY ROAST PEANUT PESTO
So a week or so ago I posted a recipe for Rosemary Butter Chicken and to serve with it I made a super simple Cider & Stilton Gravy. A Sunday Roast just isn’t correct without a decent gravy in my opinion (bad gravy should be a punishable offence) so to save anyone some jail time, here’s … Continue reading CIDER & STILTON GRAVY
Nothing hurts me more than a dry salad. Some sad, parched leaf begging for some moisture is one of the most unappealing things in the world to me. But then again having said that, so is a drenched salad leaf that’s gasping for air. I need an in between. Caesar dressing is the perfect in-between … Continue reading SIMPLE CAESAR DRESSING
I pride myself on being able to do good things with leftovers. This lunchbox is no different. I had roasted a chicken over the weekend (as per usual) and it’s always on the Tuesday or thereabouts that you have bits of cooked chicken lying around in the fridge and you don’t really know what to … Continue reading CHICKEN POMEGRANATE COUSCOUS LUNCHBOX WITH MINT AVOCADO DRESSING
Life is better when your snacks are slathered. So here is a super quick dip (try saying that three times fast) for you to throw out on the side of a table when you just want some homemade bits. Roasting the garlic bulb takes away the acrid bite of raw garlic and what happens is, … Continue reading BALSAMIC STEAMED GARLIC & CHIVE DIP
‘Get Stacking!’ It’s Pancake Day! Oh yes indeed. This day was huge in my house growing up. The batter would be ready, the flipping would commence, I’d have a nervous breakdown that I was hold a hot pan and didn’t want to risk my pancake hitting the floor. My mother would set up a Rag … Continue reading PEANUT BUTTER PANCAKES WITH CHOCOLATE AMARETTO SAUCE
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 