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Author: Sam

  • Barley risotto

    It’s been a while since I have cooked a barley risotto, and a fine thing it is.  In truth I feel that it shouldn’t really qualify as risotto, but this…

  • Roast Roots

    Roast Roots

    Though I was skeptical of the mix of the roots and the cheese, its really rather excellent. From https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/feb/09/nigel-slater-midweek-dinner-roast-roots-and-herb-cheese

  • Spanish potatoes

    Spanish potatoes

    From 200 Slow Cooker Recipes – Pg. 174

  • Vegetables Luciana Style

    Vegetables Luciana Style

    Exceptionally good treatment of vegetables, perfect on their own with crusty bread or with pasta. Probably many more variations besides. The pre-salting, leaving for an hour, then rinsing and squeezing…

  • Madras Fish Curry

    Madras Fish Curry

    Wonderful, full flavours and feels authentic. Works with more fish than just snapper and monkfish, I used rock salmon here to good effect… Though I read that this can be…

  • Tomahawk Steak

    Tomahawk Steak

    Mostly following: https://thehawksmoor.com/news/how-to-cook-the-perfect-steak/ But getting some specifics for the precise cut from: https://www.donaldrussell.com/tomahawk-steak-900g-grb1153.html And it was a triumph.  Finest steak I’ve cooked. Albeit I felt truly terrible for 2 days…

  • Borlotti Bean Soup

    Borlotti Bean Soup

    A lovely sharpness to this soup that makes it actually quite different to many otherwise similar soups.  I was unable to make up the suggested pesto style accompaniment, so I…

  • Almond chicken curry

    Almond chicken curry

    Full of flavour, full of health-feeling-ness.  By which I mean eating it feels that eating this nourishes you, that it standing you upright for whatever is to come and pumping…

  • Croissants

    Croissants

    Initially following Bread Matters, which contains many fine notes, but ultimately this was not quite an adequate enough set of instructions, claiming that the lightness found in commercial bakeries cannot…

  • Spiced roast veg

    Spiced roast veg

    A fairly standard tray roast veg dish, but very nice nonetheless.  Halloumi roasts up a treat and sprouts are always so flavoursome. From 3 2 1,pg. 154