red onion

Thai‑Style Prawn & Pineapple Egg Fried Rice

Baked Whole Sea Bass with Mediterranean Vegetables

Chicken Sausage Toad in the Hole with Chilli and Onion

Spanish Tortilla Omelette with Chilli, Thyme, and Garlic

Chilli Tomato and Prawn Cuttlefish Ink Fettuccine

Tomato Bruschetta with Chilli

spicy sausage and roasted vegetable pasta

Every so often (and far less than I wish I could muster) I go on a cycle ride with friends. Not only is my day job predominantly sedentary, but I really like the sense of occasion, being in the glorious countryside which Yorkshire offers with abundance, but also the sense of achievement one gets from…

Boeuf Bourguignon

The very first time I had ever tried Boeuf Bourguignon was at the age of 10 when staying with my great aunt Micheline in the Loire Valley. Every summer, my family would spend a couple of weeks with our relatives in Meung-sur-Loire (country home of Georges Simenon’s fictional detective Jules Maigret – for the literary…

Potato, parsnip and carrot mash with wholegrain Dijon mustard

It is very rare that I get around to making mash, and certainly not something I will do for myself – but each time I whip up a batch the feedback I receive encourages me to make it again. For me (and I am not trying to trivialise the effort required to make it taste…

Seafood Char Kuey Teow with Spinach

As I sit at my desk in my beloved man cave on New Year’s Eve writing my first recipe for 2018 (last twelve months were very short-changed in the output department), I look back at 2017 – a sodding awful year for so many reasons – hopeful that 2018 will compensate for the 365 days…