I have had this Tagine that my good friend Jean bought for me for ages and I kept on collecting tagine recipes, magazines, books, and print outs from t’internet to inspire me. How hard can it be? I think you just throw stuff in the pot, put the lid on, and then chuck it in the…
Category: Using My Cookbooks
Cooking Carbonara – ‘Home Cooking with Ferran Adria’
This week I have been exploring the pages of my latest find, the excellent cook book “The Family Meal” by Ferran Adria of El Bulli Fame. The basic premise of the book is all about the meals that they cooked at El Bulli in between service for the staff to eat. This is known as…
Roasted lemon bay garlic cod – from Ainsley Harriotts’ Gourmet Express
Gourmet Express by Ainsley Harriott was one of the first cook books that I bought, and that I actually used, to cook food at home when I was entertaining. I dusted it off a couple of weeks ago and found inside some forgotten memories of meals that I had cooked for my flatmates when I…
Persiana – Recipes from the Middle East and Beyond – does Broad Beans
“Persiana” by Sabrina Ghayour is a most beautiful cookbook full of amazing recipes and fantastically mouth watering photographs of food. It’s subtitle is “Recipes from the Middle East and Beyond”. The Author ‘Sabrina’; ‘Private Chef, Supper Club Host, Cookery Teacher & Writer’ tells us that “Food is a staple of life and every day should be…
The Big Soup – Hairy Dieters ‘Eat for Life’
Hairy Dieters Eat for Life Book by Si King and Dave Myers is the second one of their weight control series. Self designated on the cover as “The Hairy Dieters Eat for Life How to Love Food, Lose Weight and Keep it Off for Good!” you would be forgiven for thinking it is just another…
Potstickers from Heaven via Ken Hom on Saturday Kitchen
I love a good potsticker but I had never tried to cook them myself so this week when the desire to consume a large plateful became all too much I just had to make the effort to produce a panful. So where did the inspiration come from? It came from two places first from the…
Easy One Pot – Slow-Cooked, Five-Spiced pork with snap peas inspiration from Fine Cooking Magazine
Every so often I pick up a gem of a recipe from my ever expanding collection of food magazines and cookbooks. This one is for a Slow-Cooker Five-Spice Pork with Snap Peas (by Julissa Roberts from Fine Cooking). I had picked up a copy of Fine Cooking Magazine (the Winter Classics edition) while waiting in the departure lounge…
The ‘Gumbo Shop’ Gumbo – New Orleans inspired fare
This weekend we made Chicken Andouille Gumbo inspired from a trip to New Orleans. The recipe is based on one from the “The Gumbo Shop“, in New Orleans CHICKEN ANDOUILLE GUMBO – 8.50 “Boneless chicken, Andouille (a Cajun Sausage), okra and seasonings simmered in chicken stock – Selected by locals as the best Gumbo in the…
My Favourite recipes “Chorizo and Butter Bean Stew” from ‘Sausage and Mash’ by Fiona Beckett
I have had this ‘Sausage and Mash’ book by Fiona Beckett for ages. It contains one of my favourite go to recipes which is a Chorizo and Butter Bean stew. When I first bought the book and used the recipe chorizo was not as much in your face as it seems to be these days. At the…
Leftover Snack inspired by Nigel Slater’s latest book “eat”
It is around this time of the year that the fridge is full of leftovers and we are trying to eat our way through the freezer so that we can restock with more farmers market goodies. I was rummaging around in the back of the fridge and found a solitary chorizo link and a rather…
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