I am always drawn towards Scandinavian food, no doubt in part because of childhood summers spent in Norway. And this recipe, adapted from one by Andreas Viestadt, the Norwegian author of Kitchen of Li…
There is slightly more stock in this reworking of the How To Eat original, but it remains a real favourite supper for one greedy person, or a pair of more modest eaters.
The anchovies really just provide flavourfulness, certainly not fishiness: there is no need to mention their presence if you are feeding people who might take against the idea. This, as with most stew…
When I was a child, steak houses always had something called minute steak - as in minnit - on the menu, economically attractive portions that needed a mere 60 seconds to cook through. In our house the…
I often double the quantities for the meat filling, then freeze half, so I'm only a defrost away from another pudding. Traditionally, oysters were added to steak and kidney pud; I thought a little oys…
Like all old favourites, this changes pretty well every time I cook it. Sometimes I use the sake, both in the marinade and the fluid sauce later; sometimes I use Marsala or sherry. And there is no rea…
In How to Eat, I used a shallot for this salad; here I've used a spring onion. Frankly any allium of your choice would be fine. Similarly, any salad leaf you like can be used as its foundation.