Fire
A good fire is the key ingredient, Control your fires ingredients, it needs oxygen and fuel to create heat. Use good ingredients. Don’t use pre treated instant lighting charcoal....
Distance
Proximity to heat changes the flavour of your food. Too hot and you will scorch or at worst set fire to whatever you are cooking. Not hot enough and it wont cook. Learn to master t...
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 ...
Sherry
What? Yes Sherry. Or more correctly Xerez is often described as one of the Worlds best kept secrets. A much under used ingredient. Even laughed at. The UK is the largest export mar...
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...
Picklebacks
You might be wondering about pickle juice cocktails, and thinking what on earth? Pickle juice is being touted everywhere as the new superfood, in fact anything fermented...
Cider
Cider is part of the culture of Britain. Not quite a pre-historic drink, although nearly, but certainly one that has stood the test of time.