Game – Challenging Assumptions
Game Birds and Old Cocks. Game – Challenging assumptions “All meat benefits from bring cooked in different ways to enhance the properties of it, this depends on several...
Meat Free BBQ is not a guilt free BBQ
BBQ season is all year round for some people, but for the majority it only happens when the sun is shining. Greta Thunberg is coming to my BBQ If you are going to invite Greta Thun...
Slow Roast Brisket – the Holy Grail
Do not entertain the thought of this without giving it some serious consideration about timing and how you are going to keep it moist, rest and finally carve. This is not a precise...
Getting Hot and Sweaty
Do you feel less peckish when it’s hot or after a sweaty workout or spicy food? New research has discovered how body temperature might help control appetite through hea...
Wild Garlic
It will be soon that time of year again when wild garlic starts growing in hedgerows and woodland. Free food that is good for you. Firstly be sure what you are picking is wild garl...
Food critics?
A journalist? A writer? A chef? A keen amateur? Social Influencer- Which pigeon hole? By influencers I don’t just include Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Tripadvisor and so on, I m...
Steak Night
There is no simpler pleasure than a great piece of well reared, well aged, expertly butchered and perfectly cooked steak. A myriad of traditional cuts (I am talking, rump, sirloin,...
Getting all in a Pickle
With Spring about to be sprung, that means we are heading into growing season. Gluts of produce, longer days, salads and hopefully more outdoor cooking! I am sure I am not the only...
Curry Sauce
I am not talking about the stuff you get in jars. I am talking about the stuff you get from your Chinese restaurant or takeaway. That thick curious gloopy stuff that really is diff...
A Few Words on Expansion of Taste
We all have different tastes. We all like different foods. Some people really don’t like mushrooms or shellfish, or meat. Some people won’t eat certain things due to religious ...
Rubs and Brines and marinades
A lot will determine what you are cooking, if you are following a low sodium diet and how long you have. Salt doesn’t enhance flavour of the food, it works by actually opening ou...
Tips & Tricks: You have to have a bit of fat
It carries flavour and helps prevent the meat from drying out in the cooking process. No one wants to eat a lump of fat. I have seen people do it and wonder how. However a chicken ...
