Anybody who knows me well knows how much I love cheese. I’d eat it every single day and sometimes do and it would be a close run thing with bread if I could only choose one food for a [...]
Cookbooks have rapidly become my novels of choice, in fact they lie beside the bed as often as they sit on the kitchen shelf. I love a cookbook that tells a story, that lets you enter the mind [...]
Some dishes take hours of loving preparation, cooking and plating up to deliver the wow factor to the senses. Then there are some which punch so far above the sum of their parts you wonder if [...]
Number 28 on the #40by40 list was to make a soufflé. I have to admit I’d never even tasted a soufflé far less made one, maybe constant edge of seat Masterchef moments had made me feel it [...]
The lovely little market town of Strathaven (it’s pronounced Straven, don’t ask why, just know that it is) is a real self-sufficient community, it has its own artisan bakers, butcher, [...]