Jul 14
Caesar salad is one of the dishes that has probably been mucked about with and abused more than any other, including by myself, which given that it was originally created with leftovers on the spur of the moment it would be hard to say that any version is truly authentic. The inventor or the Caesar …
Jul 10
I recently came back from a business trip to South Africa, where I tried lots of really great South African food, and just had to buy a cookbook before I left, to give me some ideas to try at home. I was torn between a choice of two South African cookbooks, but in the end …
Jul 05
Undeservedly British Cuisine has been the butt of many jokes and stereotypes which can be summarized with naming the two styles of British Cooking: Boil and Bland. At one point there may have been truth to this low view of British Cooking, but today this generalization is unfounded. For dinner one evening I was planning …
Jul 02
I was preparing broccoli a while ago, by removing the florets for steaming, and I was just about to throw away the broccoli stems, when I stopped and wondered what else I could do with them. I could have cleaned them up a bit and froze them for making soup at a later date, but …
Jul 01
If you are like me you hate to go out to eat and get served a crappy salad. You know the type I’m referring to. It’s the bowl of Iceberg lettuce, a few pieces of grated carrot, one slice of cucumber and maybe two cherry tomatoes if the preparer was feeling spunky. Nothing is more …
