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If any vegetable seems destined to have a complex it’s beetroot. Familiar to most people covered in vinegar, favoured by hipster bakers to make their chocolate cakes sounds cool, rendering [...]

Gooseberries are really the poor relations of the summer berries, tart, slightly tough, and hidden behind thorns that are spiky enough to make you wonder why you bother. However what you do get [...]

Soft fruits have been omnipresent in my life it seems, with visits to East Yonderton to pick strawberries, raspberries, and blackcurrants an annual occurrence since before I could walk. It was [...]

When winter arrives, I’m usually glad that I have no outdoor space which requires tending. The thought of the dank murk, of hibernating life brings me little joy as I look out my tenement window. [...]

There’s nothing better than cooking and eating outdoors, especially surrounded by friends and family. To me it rekindles childhood memories of so much cooking on various different modes of heat, [...]

You can’t have a barbecue without salads, and this potato salad with chorizo, and refreshing fennel salad both offset each other perfectly. Make sure you don’t leave the potatoes too big, I like [...]

I can still vividly remember the first visit to my local butcher in a city which shall remain nameless. I asked for one pound of lamb neck. ‘No we don’t get much call for it so we [...]

Venison and dark spices were made for each other. The richness of the game alongside the earthy, evocative flavours of black cardamom, star anise, and mace is a work of beauty. When you throw in [...]

This is my take on a traditional Scottish dish which is called variously hotch potch or hairst bree (harvest broth). Traditionally made made with neck of lamb or mutton, I prefer to use the shank [...]

 I often feel that gooseberries are the poor relations of the summer berries. Hidden behind thorns, thick skinned, hairy with a brown tail, and with a tartness that can make the sides of [...]