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
There’s been a cold war between cupcakes and I for many years. Allow me to explain. Yeah, basically, so, I hate cupcakes. Hate them. Always have. Why do they think they’re so cute? I’ve always found them so dry and dull and boring. I don’t care what is on top of them. Speaking of which, … Continue reading CHOCOLATE OLIVE OIL CUPCAKES
I was in the supermarket and I saw that ham. That beautiful little spongy, vacuum-pack of pork and I knew I had to take it home. I knew what I had to do. It was like a calling. I cannot finish that sentence by saying I knew I had to go home and make the … Continue reading SPICY PICKLED PEACHES
Everything is phenomenal in a taco. Everything. Admittedly, I do go a bit cold when I see tacos served in that crunchy, manila envelope style boat, myself preferring the softer tortilla which I can fold at my own leisure, but it has to be said that anything cradled in a taco is about to be … Continue reading FROZEN FISH TACOS WITH PINEAPPLE SALSA
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
I have several brownie recipes up my sleeve for several occasions, but with this one I knew I wanted something that had a bit more soul to it. Soul meaning a treacly, nutty burnt butter in the guts and a syrupy, bitter sweet chocolate ganache DRIPPING down the sides. That, dear reader, is soul. A … Continue reading BURNT BUTTER BROWNIES WITH CHOCOLATE SOUR CREAM GANACHE
Did you know this was actually one of the earliest recipes I ever posted on this blog? Not this exact one, but something similar that I have now adapted. Because in the spirit of Ms. Laurie Colwin and all of the misguided adventures she writes about in ‘Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen’ (1988), … Continue reading BUTTERMILK PANCAKES
This recipe was a practice in self restraint. When I’m cooking, I am always forcefully guiding my own hand to not add flavours when they don’t belong because my natural inquisitive instinct always thinks a recipe needs to be ‘mooore’. This one doesn’t. It’s perfect. I long for simplicity in cooking. Not just simple to … Continue reading COURGETTES IN BEEF BROTH & OLIVE OIL
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
I’ve spoken lovingly many times of St David’s Day and how it’s rituals are embedded into my culture. However, through Dawnsio Gwerin, the llefaru, the daff, the leek and the singing there is one token of Welsh culture that will stay with me literally until the day I die, regardless of what day it is. … Continue reading WELSH CAKES
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 