It’s official, I’m a finalist in the Norfolk Home Chef of the Year award! The award is part of the Norfolk Food & Drink Awards and a few weeks ago I took part in a cook-off as part of the competition. Seven eager home cooks pitched up at The Assembly House at 9am on a… Continue reading Norfolk Home Chef of the Year…
In recent years I’ve not been much of a fan of ice cream, all too often it can taste too sweet and manufactured. Having said that, on a hot summer’s day I head straight for a sugar-laden Mr Whippy if the opportunity is there (it must be the legacy of growing up in a seaside town).… Continue reading The joy of ice cream…
To mark this year’s Great British Beef Week I decided to cook a different dish using our own beef each night. As Sunday marked the last day I decided a slow-cooked dish packed full of flavour was needed, so I plumped for steak and ale pie. When I was planning my week of menus last weekend… Continue reading Great British Beef Week – steak and ale pie
When I was talking to the other half about what dishes he might fancy in our week of eating beef, he was pretty keen on making burgers. If you’ve missed my previous posts this week – it’s Great British Beef Week and each night this week I’m cooking a different dish using our own beef.… Continue reading Great British Beef Week – Homemade burgers
Every night this week I am cooking a different dish using our own beef to mark Great British Beef Week – except tonight. Each month our local Japanese restaurant, Momiji, hosts a sushi week and more often than not we’ll be there with bells on. The food is sublime, the service is wonderfully friendly and… Continue reading Great British Beef Week – Japanese style steak
Quiches are funny things aren’t they, I mean they can either be wonderful or a soggy mess. For me, quiches are reminiscent of good times – of picnics, of summer salads, those warm nights spent eating outside, of homemade loveliness using rich-yoked eggs laid by your own hens. The quiche is a quintessential French pastry –… Continue reading Can we talk about quiche, not just any quiche – this is Heston’s quiche…
Throughout our lives we may move around but wherever we live there are hopefully things we remember with fondness – maybe it’s a friendly bunch of neighbours, the local pub that keeps superb ale, that place on the corner that makes sensational sandwiches or a take-away where your order is placed before you’re through the… Continue reading A love letter to all the butchers I have known…
I’ve got a confession to make – I don’t eat pancakes very often. But, on Shrove Tuesday, it always seems criminal not to. And, each year, the tradition is the same, a batch of paper thin, crispy crepes suzette are sizzled on the hob and kept warm in the oven before lashings of lemon juice… Continue reading Shrove Tuesday…
In my latest attempt to cook my way through the food days that are scattered across the year, I took on National Pizza Day – yes, there is such a thing, who’d have thought! I love a pizza – what’s not to love about a crispy thin base, a rich sweet tomato sauce (with a hint… Continue reading An excuse for pizza (if any was needed)…
As part of my quest to cook through the myriad of food and drink days that pepper the year, last night I took on Chinese New Year. Not so much a dedicated food day as a worldwide celebration, but excuse enough, if any was needed, to cook Chinese food. I think I was far too ambitious. It must be… Continue reading Chinese New Year…
