As I finish off the very British Christmas pudding, I reflect on the fact that I’m not really a dessert person. But I do have some favourites.
SIX SWEET PUDDINGS
SIX DELECTABLE MAINS
Gentleman’s Portion: The Cookbook is now available online with more than 90 mostly vegetarian recipes. Here are images for six outstanding main courses from the book.
ALMOST THE LAST PAGE
Checking through the nearly 90 recipes scheduled for my new cookbook, I found I’d missed a good vegetarian pasta sauce, which is curious because I’ll often throw together a great marinara for […]
CAN FONDUE MAKE A COMEBACK?
In my first cookbook, How to Eat Well and Stay Single, I wrote about this communal dish that was popular in the 70s. I think everyone had a special fondue pot, with […]
NEAPOLITAN SPECIALITIES
We all know that pizza was invented in Naples, Italy. Another of their amazing and popular dishes is eggplant parmesan, and although their claim to its creation is not quite so certain, […]
SIX TASTY SOUPS
Gentleman’s Portion: The Cookbook is now available online with more than 90 mostly vegetarian recipes.
BETTER THAN CARROTS
Wherever I go travelling, if my chosen coffee shop serves carrot cake, you can be sure I’ll return. With it’s delicious lemon tangy topping, this moist cake is irresistible.
PORTUGAL’S SECOND FAVOURITE DISH
Not surprisingly, rice features in a lot of Portugal’s cuisine. They’re also partial to monkfish. Together they make a delicious version of what the Spanish call paella and the Italians call risotto.
FORAGED FEAST
One of my favourite farmers’ markets has reopened and I’m off to forage for wild mushrooms, a safer option than trying to avoid poisonous toadstools, snakes, ivy and oak in Ontario’s woodlands.
SALUTE TO THE CARNEGIE DELI
There’s nothing more sinfully delicious than a New York style cheesecake from the Carnegie Deli, with its most popular topping being a strawberry sauce. And since both the original Carnegie Deli and […]
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