La bonne bouffe

A quiche simply does not look as glorious the day after.  Just-pulled from the oven this specimen billowed beauty, exhibiting crisp yello...

Ostensibly the most ordinary of Carrot Cakes this is in fact a colourful celebration of our magnificent crop - the cake is a melange of t...

...with Cheese on Toast.  A little indulgent it has to be said, but sliced bread and melted cheese is quite the happiest addition to a...

I should start this post with a one-liner: you'd have to be a fool not to be able to make one ... or something.  Fergus Henderson, w...

In a garden in the Val d'Orcia this summer I had a plate of chicken livers that reminded me that the simplest, humblest of rural food...

It has to be said that, after a hot and close Summer, this past fortnight has definitely felt like Autumn.  Along with the cooler weathe...

I love this picture, which captures the somewhat chaotic cockle lunch we had on Sunday.   Spaghetti alla Vongole is all about timing - ...

The green tart - just visible at the bottom of the picture - is a year round staple.  I have my days on Clare Island to thank for th...

By now you have eaten Courgettes raw, roasted, grilled, steamed, barbecued and stuffed.  You have made zucchini cakes and breads and pie...

The Blackberries are definitely here.  The allotment is teeming.  I have persuaded some friends to come for tea, simply for an excuse to ...

The joy, as here we reach the height of the Courgette season.  We have had a month or so of perpetual grilled and barbecued Courgettes...

Blackcurrant is quite the headiest of summer flavours, almost musky, a touch tart, the scent of the leaves alone risks intoxicating.  I l...

Ideally for this simplest of summer recipes, you have an ice-cream maker, and a freezer.  If this is the case, you coarsely blend 500g R...

Those of you that have followed this blog from the start will remember tales of Gardener's Cottage, where kitchen pottered into gard...

Yellow and orange Carrots roast with Honey and Lemon.  Piled on top of large grain wholemeal Couscous and Rocket.  Glamourised with Nast...

Fry Chorizo and Onion in Olive Oil, add blanched Broad Beans, heat through until hot, smother in Olive Oil, fresh Garlic and Spring Onio...

A fiery summer pesto, and a solution to all that rocket going to too quickly to seed. My preferred pesto is one that both catches...

I made pasties to take into the woods, as the coppicing season starts again.  These are filled with a mixture of Roasted Pumpkin, Carrot ...

The season for Apple Tarts is upon us, and last night I set to on that pud suited to autumnal feasting: Une Tarte Tatin . For the...

After the deluge... These weeks of deluge bring green to the roadsides, woodlands and the veg patch.  My hands full of the green ...

I was today berated for not having written since the Garden Pesto - over a month ago.  As it is Spring, and the birds are a-laying, he...

The snow melted, this morning I set out to see what edible greens could be found and foraged for a raw Garden Pesto . I was hoping for ...

As the winter cold eventually embraces the Norfolk countryside, and I am obliged to double the numbers of socks worn, forced to better my g...

Spring, Summer, Autumn, were spent, you might remember, madly concocting inifinite beverages, that the winter might be spent hunkered dow...

I have to acknowledge having, these last few days, fed friends on the likes of Steak Tartare and Chips, dishes that are utterly inconsistent...

On a winter’s night: a Quiche. Whether to call these creations that are not Quiche Lorraine, Quiches , or as perhaps the Fre...