lemon juice

Kedgeree with Chilli and Garlic

Roast Clay-Pot Lemon Chicken with Garlic and Chilli

Smoked Mackerel Rillettes with Aleppo Pepper

Linguine alle vongole

Fennel, orange and anchovy salad

Zesty Monk fish and Tiger Prawn Skewers

Watercress and pomegranate salad

This recipe began its life as a garnish to steak. When I first wrote it up, I had the following in mind: “When it comes to the good old meat and 2 x veg, I am quite partial to something hot and vegetable-related to accompany the meat and potatoes. However, where steak is concerned, I…

Smoked salmon, spinach and poached egg bagel

A little while ago – almost four weeks to the day – two things happened – I had my work Christmas party, which also coincided with my last day of my job in Yorkshire. Leaving party + a festive shindig did certainly render me, the next morning, into a certain feeling of disrepair. It is,…

Boeuf Bourguignon

The very first time I had ever tried Boeuf Bourguignon was at the age of 10 when staying with my great aunt Micheline in the Loire Valley. Every summer, my family would spend a couple of weeks with our relatives in Meung-sur-Loire (country home of Georges Simenon’s fictional detective Jules Maigret – for the literary…

Smoked Salmon, Dill, and Red Onion Omelette

I have just been finishing off at work for lunch the remains of the smoked salmon, dill, and red onion omelette I made on Sunday. It is a good thing too, as I needed to be reminded of some of the ingredients I had used in order to write this up. My cooking approach is…