To Spain for Lunch: Pazo de Señorans at El Celler de Can Roca
Clockwise from top left: Starfish made of seafood; Mackerel with fermented ganxet beans; White asparagus with mullet bottarga, vegetable...
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May 15, 2017
Return of the Bollinger Lunch: James Bond and vintage Champagne surprises
The Bollinger Lunch was, as you can imagine, a rather nice fixture in the calendar until it was dropped a couple of years ago. Searching...
Dec 4, 2016
Chestnuts: Chestnut Soup
This is archetypal winter food – thick and warming. It’s filling enough for a simple mid-week lunch and delicious enough for a dinner...
Oct 3, 2016
Tomatoes: Mediterranean Tomato and Olive Tarts
These are basically pizzas with a polenta pastry crust. The advantage, apart from the fact that the base is deliciously crunchy and...
Sep 24, 2016
Tomatoes: Baked Sea Bream with Tarragon and Tomatoes
There’s nothing to this. The tomatoes burst as they cook, creating a sauce while you enjoy your aperitif. Bream with tarragon is magical,...
Sep 17, 2016
Tomatoes: Tomato and Ricotta Sformata
This is a breeze to make and looks smart – a pale yellow set-custard studded with cherry tomatoes, although in the picture above I used a...
Aug 23, 2016
Herbs: Roast Chicken with Thyme and Cream Cheese
Herbs and cream cheese slotted in under the skin along the breasts not only flavour the bird but also keep the flesh beautifully moist –...
Aug 20, 2016
Herbs: Dill and Orange-Stuffed Whole Roast Fish
This is a simple, zingy stuffing for whole fish such as sea bass, bream, red mullet, mackerel or trout or whatever is in season and...
Aug 6, 2016
Herbs: Rocket, Basil, Mint and Parsley Soup
Rosemary is perfect with lamb, sage is a triumph with pork, mint brings out the flavour of peas and tarragon and chicken were made for...
Feb 2, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Tuna Ceviche with Vodka and Lime
Far be it from me to suggest that anyone should find cooking with wine in Britain off-puttingly expensive, but I do concede that, thanks...
Nov 15, 2015
Cheap Entertaining: Pork Chops with Mustard & Honey
Pork is cheap, but chops are often so lean (obsessively so in supermarkets) they need remedial treatment to stop them being dry. The...
Nov 8, 2015
Cheap Entertaining: Milk-Braised Lamb with Fennel
If the sound of meat and milk sounds odd, remember that pork braised in milk has a impeccable pedigree from both Venice and southwest...
Nov 1, 2015
Cheap Entertaining: Lazy Baked Chicken with Soy and Ginger
Another from my Sunday Times recipe series, again very relevant right now - November and the run-up to Christmas are definitely a time...
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