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Category Archives: Healing Foods
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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Comfort Farm Food
We’ve all had foods we fall back on for comfort – if we’re honest we still do. They take us back to the gentler days of childhood and innocence, or just plain remind us of better times. I adore madelaines dipped … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology and Food, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Bread, Chicken, Classic Rice Dishes, Foraging, Greek Cooking, Healing Foods, Hen's and Bantam's Eggs, Perfect Eggs, Simple Food, Stocks and Stock Making
Tagged Avgolemono, Egg in a Cup, Etretat, Madelaines, Marcel Proust, Rosie Barron
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Hamburger Heaven at Home
Hamburger Heaven is at Home. Next comes Joe Allen (London). You just need a good butcher and imagination to make a heavenly hamburger. That’s a promise. Continue reading
Broccoli – the Confused Cauliflower with Roman Roots
Broccoli – love it or loathe it, like its cousin, the cauliflower. I love both so don’t understand how you could not like broccoli (or cauliflower). Early botanists were confounded as to quite how it grew its curd, they just knew it did. … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassica's, Cauliflowers, Fish, Healing Foods, Kitchen Tips, Real Italy
Tagged Blue Collar Gastronomy, Broccoli, Chinatown, Chinese Cooking, Cooking techniques, Cooking tips, food, Gareth Jones, George Bush, Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything, Vegetables
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Ginger’s Magic
Fish is only fresh when it doesn’t smell of fish. Who said that? The Chinese and Japanese. Ginger masks ‘Marine tang’ say the Burmese. Ginger is magic. Continue reading