by Ian Callaghan | Apr 30, 2020 | Recipes
Nan’s Rice Pudding Growing up I spent a lot of time cooking with my Nan and one of my favourites was Nan’s rice pudding. I do not think there is a better comfort food pudding, creamy, unctuous moreish, the smell of the nutmeg as it cooks and then the skin...
by Ian Callaghan | Apr 26, 2020 | Recipes
Moules Frites Moules Frites or Moules et Frites is a main dish of mussels and fries originating in Belgium. The title of the dish is French, moules meaning mussels and Frites fries, with the Dutch name for the dish meaning the same. Considered the national dish of...
by Ian Callaghan | Apr 24, 2020 | Recipes
Wild Garlic and Nettle Risotto Spring has definitely sprung, wild garlic in abundance and the nettle tops we all hated as kids, so time to make wild garlic and nettle risotto. There is no mistaking wild garlic or Ramsons to give them their other name. Swathes of the...
by Ian Callaghan | Apr 23, 2020 | Recipes
Homemade Baked Beans Using leftovers and store cupboard basics, these homemade baked beans with a steak bavette hash made a great midweek meal. I used a tin of cannellini beans for this but you could use any beans though I don’t like broad beans done this way....
by Ian Callaghan | Apr 21, 2020 | Recipes
Steak Bavette with Chimichurri Sauce Steak Bavette with Chimichurri Sauce, my favourite cut of steak is the steak bavette in this post I am doing a simple but classic way of cooking bavette or flank. The Bavette steak is a French name for the...
by Ian Callaghan | Apr 20, 2020 | Recipes
Chicken Jalfrezi Another curry that is not truly authentic, Chicken Jalfrezi is well up there on the UK curry house favourites list. It is not listed in any of the books I have by Indian chefs. The name in rough translation from Bengali means Jhal meaning hot and...
