Author: Sam
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Vegetables Luciana Style
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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…
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Madras Fish Curry
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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…
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Tomahawk Steak
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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…
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Borlotti Bean Soup
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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…
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Almond chicken curry
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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…
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Croissants
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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…
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Spiced roast veg
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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
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Sourdough and Sausage Bake
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A nice, simple roast tray-bake dish with a pleasing combination of vegetables. However it’s rendered properly tasty by the lovely parsley, pine nut relish added to the plate at the…
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Leek, Artichoke and Prawn Paella
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Extremely good, extraordinarily expensive. Paella rice, saffron, king prawns, artichoke hearts, all big ticket items that cause this to have a hefty cost per plate. The ingredients here are beautifully…
