Slow Cooked

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 [...]

I affectionately know this dish of roast lamb shoulder with garlic and rosemary as ‘Uncle Monty’s Lamb’ after the scene in the movie Withnail and I. Simplicity is the key here, good produce [...]

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 [...]

The Christmas festivities have passed, the leftovers eaten or frozen, the new year steak pie well and truly finished. In fact the last vestige of the season is the bottle of mulled wine that you [...]

If Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking was the first cookbook that I fell in love with, the second was definitely Diana Henry’s inspiring first volume, Crazy Water Pickled Lemons. A book [...]

Anchovies are a fairly standard ingredient for adding umami, that indescribable flavour characteristic, and nowhere better than alongside the rich flavour of mutton in a fairly classic Roman [...]

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 [...]

There are few things as exciting in life as finding flavour combinations that work. I was chatting to Ruth Harris from Harris Farm Meats at the weekend about the very subject and it was great to [...]

When you think of so many classic French cookbooks coq au vin always jumps out from the page. The cockerel, jointed, marinaded and slow cooked almost ritualistically. It conjures up memories of [...]

Speyside is a place that I’ve always held dear, seemingly less rugged than the west coast where I spent most of my childhood holidays but at the same time majestic in its own way. I always [...]