Panettone Bread and Butter Pudding

not many people are keen on panettone – is it bread or cake? It’s too dry to be cake but not doughy enough to be bread.  What do you have it with?  How do you slice it?  How do you serve it?  Are those raisins and bits of candied peel? 

Pheasant

There is something very British about pheasant. Images of men in tweed, wearing Barbour jackets, valets reloading rifles before handing them back to their masters and hounds with bird in mouth come to mind.

Pheasant

There is something very British about pheasant. Images of men in tweed, wearing Barbour jackets, valets reloading rifles before handing them back to their masters and hounds with bird in mouth come to mind.

Taco Tuesday

…spice them up with jalapeños, cool them down with sour cream…

Mum’s Coconut Prawns

These are the sort of thing that you snack on quite easily without realising how many tails you are unashamedly stacking on the side of your plate! 

Sourdough – King of Bread

Once the staple of healthy hippies, sourdough has quickly become the best thing since sliced bread!  The superb flavour of a finished loaf cannot be beaten with its tangy, chewy, smoky taste; this robust bread is the undisputed King of Bread for a reason.

Chocolate Mousse

2 medium eggs 65g dark chocolate 2 tspn sugar 1) melt the chocolate 2) separate the eggs 3) whisk the egg whites and add the sugar 4) add the yolks to the melted chocolate 5) fold the egg whites into chocolate mixture taking care not to lose the air you’ve whisked into the whites 6)pour…

Pancake Day

Pancake Day aka Shrove Tuesday aka Mardi Gras Shrove Tuesday is once again upon us and everyone will be stocking up on flour, eggs, milk to make their runny batter and have a gluttonous sugary feast before being shriven of these excesses in diet as well as in life. As a child, I was brought…