If it’s August it must be deep-fried

If I say so myself I cooked a really rather good lunch which we ate in the garden the other day.  Two of the dishes were from Simon Hopkinson’s newish book The Vegetarian Option   and utilised a couple of ingredients both delicious and in season, tomatoes and runner beans.  As much as I was chuffed [...]

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Curried cheesy cauliflowers

This week in amongst tweets about my objections to Question Time producers booking comedians as panellists, my elderly neighbour’s sad and slightly creepy afternoon activity of playing Teddy Bears’ Picnic on the piano whilst gathering her collection of cuddly toys around her, and shouting at John Sentamu in 140 characters or fewer after his pitiful [...]

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Making a silk purse out of a really quite nice sow’s ear

You know when you do something very clever but if you feel you start shouting about it then you might appear a bit of tosser, well it’s a risk I take tonight. On Saturday two friends came for supper and they were given roast pheasant, baked chipolatas wrapped in streaky bacon, celery braised with porcini [...]

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