This Tex-Mex recipe is one I've cooked regularly for over thirty years because it's so good -- one of those dishes people ask me to make, and want the recipe for, so I guess it qualifies as something of a retro classic that's stood the test of time. … [Read more...]
Bonfire Night: food cooked over fire
Listen to Laura's podcast of this food essay by clicking the arrow below: When I first came to England many years ago, I confess to finding Bonfire Night, with its typically drizzly fireworks and cold burgers on soggy fields -- not … [Read more...]
The fall and rise of the tomato
Listen to Laura's podcast of this food essay by clicking the arrow below: Summer has certainly been elusive this year, but it’s still summer. Its exuberant harvest is glutting our fields and markets despite the weather’s ups and … [Read more...]
Peanut butter oat cookies
These are very definitely a peanut butter cookie, but they are also a wheat free oatmeal cookie. I experimented with my favourite peanut butter cookie recipe to make some for a friend who can't eat wheat, but can tolerate oats. I discovered that … [Read more...]
California cooking: Chez Panisse garlic soufflé
If there's one thing that typifies California cooking to me more even than artichokes, it has to be garlic. It grows famously in Gilroy, south of San Francisco, where the town smells of garlic in the best kind of way, and you can procure anything … [Read more...]
Mina’s Napoli sea bream with pink peppercorns, coriander seeds and rosemary
This is an excitingly delicious and very easy way to cook fish that we discovered on a birthday trip to Naples, and I believe it to be a rarity, and perhaps unique. Mina, the gentle woman who cooked it for us, told us with quiet pride, “It’s my … [Read more...]
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