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New Recipe: Wild Garlic Salsa Verde
Following up on my veal posting earlier this week, I thought I’d use the last of my foraged wild garlic for a salsa verde variation. Big thanks, once again, to my super butchers Chris and Jim at The Parson’s Nose — … Continue reading
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Tagged butchers, garlic, recipe, salsa verde, The Parson's Nose, UK, veal, wild garlic, wild garlic salsa verde
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Some Veal-y Thoughts
I’m just back from a weekend in Beaminster, Dorset, with the family. And there I fell in love with a butcher’s shop. (And with a hat shop, though that’s another story which ends with a rather snazzy red fedora.) For … Continue reading
New In The Little Black Book: Bridge Farm Cider
Just back from a family weekend in Dorset with a fantastic find for my UK Little Black Book: Bridge Farm Cider, in Somerset. Now, I have to confess that I’m not the world’s biggest cider fan (though I love to … Continue reading
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Tagged Little Black Book, booze, UK, fruit, Somerset, apples, Somerset Cider Brandy, Dorset, cider, bridge farm, apple juice
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New Recipe: Bryn’s White Bread
You can’t beat a loaf of freshly baked bread. It tastes so much better than shop-bought, plus it has the added bonus of not having all the additives and preservatives and other assorted E-numbers which seem to disagree with so … Continue reading
The Magic of Massimo and Armando’s Oil
Well, if this isn’t just about one of the best olive oil’s I’ve ever tasted here in London, I’ll eat my wooly hat! I’ve written before about my friends Massimo and Susanna Usai, and their Sardinian restaurant in Putney, Isola … Continue reading
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Tagged Armando Usai, groceries, Isola del Sole, Italy, London, Massimo Usai, olive oil, restaurants, Sardinia, Susanna Usai, UK
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The Fish Fight Continues
The fish fight continues, as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s much lobbied for fisheries reform moves on to the next stage of the process in the European Parliament. To keep things on track, the campaign needs our support to remind MEPs how many … Continue reading
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Tagged campaigns, Europe, european parliament, fish, fish-fight, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, UK
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New Recipe: Fennel and Thyme Fried Rabbit with Garlic
One of the thing that always surprises me is that, in Malta, rabbit is a celebratory staple, available all year round — be it rabbit and chips on the beach or delicious, herby stews. Whereas here in Britain, we tend … Continue reading
Christmas Wine From Our Favourite Wine Guys
It’s Christmas wine round-up time! So here are some quick tips to make your Christmas that little bit merrier… From Bottle Apostle: Peter Franus Albarino, 2009 — a cracking big California white, with lush fruit balanced by a zingy acidity, which … Continue reading
Talking Turkey
It’s the first of December on Thursday, which means that this is the week when most people begin to think about ordering their Christmas turkey. And that means it’s also the week when the anti-turkey people in your family will … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, farming, flavour, pork, rare breed, turkey, UK
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