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Food is good: Plums are not the only fruit
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Monday, 17 September 2012. Plums are not the only fruit. The last couple of posts have been on stuff to do with plums, lots of plums (and there’s still jam and tart to come…), but I wouldn’t want you to go away with the idea that this blog is all, and only, about plums these days. Of course it’s not. And of course this time of year, the end of the summer and beginning of autumn, is famously the most abundant time ofyear. For all sorts of fruit and veg – not to mention wild mushrooms and game. Speaking fo...
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Food is good: Al fresco Steak Salad
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Wednesday, 22 August 2012. Al fresco Steak Salad. Having spent so much of this year having a bit of a moan about the weather, I feel rather bad about having had nothing to say (on the blog at least) since the summer came good, but what with a week’s holiday, the Olympics. And starting a new job. Since last I posted, I don’t seem to have much time to cook, let alone write it up. Innovation is all very well, and there’s always a place, indeed a need, for it – but old favourites are good too. I served up a ...
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Food is good: November 2011
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011. Autumn at last: Quince jelly and old medlars. Mists, mellow fruitfulness and game birds, which I get the impression seem to be particularly abundant and cheap this year – I came across partridges being sold in the Bloomsbury (of all places) farmers market for just £2.50 a bird last week. Unfortunately just after I’d done my weekly meat shop (and with the freezer still chocker with Bert and Ernie. Of December last year, which I see from the date stamps on my photos was the very ...
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Food is good: February 2012
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Friday, 17 February 2012. A new definition of comfort food: Smoked Haddock Risotto. A couple of posts back. I wrote about how, at this time of year and with the arrival of (finally! Some proper winter weather, then food-wise it was all about big meaty stews and hearty soups, and then I went ahead and wrote up a chickpea and spinach dish just to be contrary/prove there was an alternative. That last bit was plainly unnecessary. Looking back over the posts I’ve published since the turn of the year. Anyway, ...
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Food is good: August 2012
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Wednesday, 22 August 2012. Al fresco Steak Salad. Having spent so much of this year having a bit of a moan about the weather, I feel rather bad about having had nothing to say (on the blog at least) since the summer came good, but what with a week’s holiday, the Olympics. And starting a new job. Since last I posted, I don’t seem to have much time to cook, let alone write it up. Innovation is all very well, and there’s always a place, indeed a need, for it – but old favourites are good too. I served up a ...
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Food is good: Plum(p up the) Jam
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Thursday, 20 September 2012. Plum(p up the) Jam. I guess it’s time to finish off those plums. You remember the plums, the ones from my friend Lindsay’s tree? The ones I made into two kinds of sauce to go with duck. Or stir fried pork and beef since), and chutney. And a tart (that I still have to write up)? And, as I promised, jam? I did a fair bit of research, and pretty much all the recipes I found were, broadly speaking, much the same - I settled on the Cottage Smallholder’s version. By and large, I...
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Food is good: Sausage and Mash
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Chilli and Garlic sausages from the farmer's market, stewed with pears, red pepper, mushrooms and cannellini beans, served with herby mash. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Roast Beef, and the salad in the picture. How about some Bolly? London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Around Britain with a Paunch. Reads, Cooks, Eats. Hunter Angler Gardener Cook. Eat like a girl. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Food is good: December 2012
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Wednesday, 12 December 2012. How about some Bolly? You may have noticed I haven't been blogging recently (or probably not - my life clearly doesn't revolve around it, I certainly wouldn't expect yours to.), but I did have an absolutely fabulous opportunity to visit the House of Bollinger. A while back, and write it up for Civilian. The brand spanking new online luxury lifestyle magazine started by my good friend Mark C O'Flaherty). You can read all about it here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Food is good: Plum Crazy
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Tuesday, 4 September 2012. Last week my good friend Lindsay sent a plea for help. The plum tree in her back garden was so overladen with fruit that it represented a danger to itself and others, and was in need of a radical plum-ectomy. Of course I was happy to help out. At the end of the morning I came home with three large bags, filled with plums of all stages of development save the last. The contents of the three bags had been sorted, into thoroughly unripe, not quite ripe, and ripe and ready to eat.
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Food is good: December 2011
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011. One pot pollack steaks and rice: Meat free comfort food. Cheap, lazy and a little bit paella-ish. This time of year, with the nights drawing in some time around early afternoon, both the present and the future looking inescapably bleak, and the ghost of Christmas imminent haunting every waking (and sleeping) hour, it’s very easy to resort to meaty comfort foods for every meal - big hearty stews. And as his River Cottage. Sidekick, and my own former colleague, Tim Maddams.
