For a posh purveyor M&S has come a long way – discounting foods like there’s no tomorrow, which for 12 lamb meatballs on their sell-by date is quite true. That’s where I came in and gave them a future as the stars of a southern Spanish-style spectacular supper. Not quite P.T. Barnum but darned [...]
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spicy-sweet-sour Spanish tomato sauce with lamb meatballs
Posted in Autumn/Fall, lamb on November 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
radicchio rosso di Treviso tardivo
Posted in Autumn/Fall on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh what lovely friends I have! Dear (not my cousin) Vinny takes a trip home to Montebelluna, 65km north of Venice, 35km north of Treviso (this is important), and brings me back the best souvenir I can imagine: three feisty heads of radicchio. Not just any old radicchio, mind, these are the ne plus ultra [...]
what to ♥ now – Merry Christmas Valentine
Posted in Autumn/Fall, Winter, books, recipes, tagged pork, recipe, slow cooker, stew, Valentine Warner on December 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mmmm, yummy yum yum. A brand new juicy cookbook from a great galumphing goofy guy with big heart, bold -not bolshy- bearing and a neat turn of phrase. I shot to the online reservation page of my local library’s website and lo and behold picked up Valentine Warner’s hefty tome a mere two days later. The [...]
brandade fumée – a mash of smoked fish
Posted in Autumn/Fall, Summer, Winter, credit crunch, fast food, ingredients, recipes, shopping, tagged Lidl, recipe, smoked fish on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my all-time favourite dishes is brandade de morue – salt cod whipped up with olive oil and mashed potato plus a wee hint or more of garlic and a scatter of parsley. Much as I adore the taste, though, I’m not about to pack in my suitcase a whiffy hunk of dried North Atlantic [...]
rata-tata-touïlle retro
Posted in Autumn/Fall, Summer, ingredients, recipes, tagged ratatouille, recipe, vegetables on November 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well hey, I’m not going to pay a visit to our place in Nice and swan about its perfect little kitchen, brave the snooty sales ladies at Alziari for a tin of their unctuous olive oil, fossick about the farmers’ stalls for vegetables and forage for fresh herbs on the Cours Saleya and NOT idle away an [...]
I ate dog shit…
Posted in Autumn/Fall, overseas, restaurants, tagged Vieux Nice on November 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
…and I loved it. No, I wasn’t auditioning for a remake of Pink Flamingos, but as in the direct translation of the Nissard dialect’s Merda de Can and no, it’s not actually what it says on the tin, rather a gnocchi Nissarde made with swiss chard (blettes) and/or spinach, shaped to resemble its namesake; I doubt if the [...]
a civilized day out
Posted in Autumn/Fall, shopping, tagged art, food, Fortnum and Mason, London, shopping on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Somerset House photo credit: Jan van der Crabben A couple of weeks ago we dashed up to the Big Smoke on a sunny Saturday to catch the last weekend of the Courtauld Institute’s Cezanne exhibition - which was stunning, btw. And what a stunning day all round: Somerset House itself; at the far eastern end of The Strand, [...]
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