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Category Archives: Game
Deh-Ta Hsiung – The Quiet Revolutionary
When Deh-Ta Hsiung walked down the gangway of the P&O SS ‘Corfu’ and came ashore at Tilbury on Boxing Day in 1949, he was young man arriving in the right place at the right time. He was just 17 and that time … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Burgundy, Chicken, Classic Rice Dishes, Dim-Sum, Fish, Food Influencers, Foraging, Game, Ginger, London Dining, Memories, Onions, Pork, Real Chinese Cooking, Rice, Traditions at Table, Vinegars, Wines
Tagged 'Lady Precious Stream', Ballymaloe Co Cork, Bean Sprouts, Chinatowns, Cognac, Deh-Ta Hsiung, Dim-Sum, Dylan Thomas, Festival of Britain, Kai-Lu Hsiung, Ken Hom, Ken Lo, Oxford, Peking, Rice Wine, Ridley Scott, Royal College of Art, Sherry & Port, Shih I Hsiung, Slade Art School
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Feasting at Family Table with a Fine Man
A weekend of feasting ended last evening with a dinner centred on Risotto alla Milanese – the saffron-infused risotto sometimes served with classic Osso Buco. In a week when a friend – known to all as The Pocket Chef* -pointed out … Continue reading
Posted in Alliums, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassica's, Brassica's, Fish, Fonds and Jus, Game, Good Potatoes, Healing Foods, Label Rouge, Risotto, Stocks and Stock Making, supermarkets, Traditions at Table
Tagged Brussels Sprouts, Caper Sauce for Trout, Capon's of Rochester, Crushed Potatoes, Flageolet Beans, Frightening the beans, Haggis, Hotel Westminster Le Touquet, Isle of Man Lamb, Label Rouge, Lancashire Moss, Macsween's Haggis, Morrison's, Roast Pheasant, The Pocket Chef, www.walkwithjoy.com
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Autumn’s in the Woods
Do I have a favourite season? Immediately I’d say Autumn because long hot sunshine days rather pull me down. But this is rubbish. All the seasons have their special moments and merits. Autumn just happens to over brim with Richness, … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Alliums, Black Peppercorns, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Dry Martini, Food travel, Foraging, Game, Good Potatoes, Graisse d'oie and Confit de Canard, Real Italy, Richard Olney, Stocks and Stock Making, The Good Cook Series, Wild Funghi, Wine Boxes
Tagged Autumn, Autumn Cooking, Cepes, Family Feasting, Family Sunday, Foraging, Fresh Chestnuts, Game Birds, Juniper, Les Navets, Master Stock, Porcini, Red Cabbage, Roe Deer, Sauce Making, Stocks, Venison, Wild Funghi
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Trots to the Pot
You like pig’s feet – les pieds du porc, manitas de cerdo, schweinstrüße, etc? I love them and always have since my Welsh grandmother would prepare them for me as a child, much to the chagrin of my mother who … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Comforting Foods, Fonds and Jus, French Regional Foods, Game, Stocks and Stock Making, supermarkets, Techniques, Veal
Tagged Agnes B, Au Pied du Cochon, Aux Pieds des Cochons, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cottechino, E Dehilleren, Les Halles, Les Halles Paris, Levoni of Mantova, Onion Soup, Pieds du Porc, Pierre Koffmann, Pig's Trotters, Rungis, Stock Making, Zampone
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Our 2011/12 has been Game ‘Off’ not ‘ Game On’
Maybe I’ve a game issue because I’ve not had my loved and well-worn 12 bore off its secure clip to be stood early morning on my peg loaded and waiting - hip flask of sloe gin in right pocket with cartridges in my left - for the … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Chicken, Farmers Markets, Foie Gras, French Markets, Game, Poulet Fermiers, Wild Funghi
Tagged Becasse, Farmers Markets, Game Dealers, Grand Maitre 'Bresse' style Chicken, Grey Leg English Partridge, Hare, James Burden, Juniper, Lapin de Garenne, Loue, Mallard, Nicola Fletcher - food writer, Pheasants, Pink Shotguns, Porcini, Portwine, Rabbit, Red Legged 'French' Patridges, Shiny 4x4s, Smithfield Market, Snipe, Teal, Wild Venison, Wood Pigeon, Woodcock
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My Predictions (and Hopes) for 2012
Like one of those dungaree’d and hatted, larger-than-life heroes who appear as the Ice Road Truckers, I’m venturing out onto the thin ice carrying a heavy load with my predictions for this year. Pushing aside the gloom about how tough the … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Chicken, Food Influencers, Food Marketeers, Game, Good Potatoes, Label Rouge, Organic Food, Poulet de Gournay, Poulet Fermier, Salad, Speciality Chicken, Wine Making and Viticulture
Tagged Artisan Cheese, Batavia, Beef Breeds - Hereford, Belted Galloways, Blanquette de Limoux, Cotentin Pre-Sale Lamb, Cremant, Escarole, Franciacorta, Linzer Potatoes, Longhorn, Pompadour Potatoes, Poulet de Gournay, Poulets Fermiers, Salt Marsh Lamb, Shorthorn, Vouvray
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Moor Grouse Please
This is going to start a bit like a Tatler & Bystander Diary piece from the 60s. Pick up time one afternoon a month or so back, one of the mothers at our youngest’s school said she had something for us. Joy … Continue reading