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The great cookery writer and mother of Italian cooking, Marcella Hazan, died last Sunday, 29 September, at the age of 89. As I’ve written before (click here), I regularly made a Ragu – Bolognese sauce – on Fridays and tonight I decided to follow Marcella’s recipe in her The Classic Italian Cookbook carefully as a tribute to her. […]
Read MoreI’ve been making moussaka for as long as I’ve been cooking, I think. I got seriously into cooking in my teens and remember I had a favourite book of classic recipes from around the world and each recipe was accompanied by a big photo of the dish. It was quite a simple and straightforward book, […]
Read MoreWith Jonathan and Lyndsey coming for supper yesterday and knowing how they love the recipes in Ottolenghi’s wonderful new book, Jerusalem, as much as I do, I looked through it for a dish I hadn’t tried yet. The ‘Slow Cooked Veal with Prunes & Leeks’ sounded perfect for the cold weather. However, I couldn’t source the […]
Read MoreThere’s nothing quite like a rich casserole on a winter’s evening, brimming with good ingredients and full of flavour, to warm the soul as well as the stomach. Boeuf Bourguignon is such a great classic, and like all classics, it’s a well-worn favourite for a good reason: it’s incredibly delicious. When I was coming up with […]
Read MoreWriting my post a week ago about Moroccan Meatballs and remembering my first visit to Marrakesh got me in the mood for more Moroccan food and so tonight’s supper was all about the taste and flavours and wonderful memories of that exciting country. I was last in Marrakesh in 2008 staying in a beautiful riad […]
Read MoreI love Morocco and Marrakesh is one of the most exciting cities I’ve been to. I can’t eat Moroccan Meatballs in Tomato Sauce without thinking of a wonderful train journey from Marrakesh to Fez about ten years ago. We’d been staying in a small riad in the Medina in Marrakesh where we’d been looked after […]
Read MoreThis Italian recipe is one of my favourite ways of cooking and eating steak – I even chose it for my birthday family dinner earlier this year when my son expertly barbecued the steak to a brilliant state of medium-rare. It’s so simple and you can serve some easy antipasti first (as I mentioned in […]
Read MoreI’m not sure exactly when it started; it’s been years and years that I’ve been making Bolognese on Friday evenings. It certainly began round about the time when my kids hit their teens and headed off into the big wide world of night-time West London on a Friday evening and wanted to go out early […]
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