Mushrooms cooked with soy sauce – a combination recommended by the mushroom man at Bath’s Saturday farmers’ market – make a great base for this wholesome veggie recipe. It’s a loose, fresh sort of stuffing rather than a dense one with breadcrumbs. Capers and a splash of vinegar give it a zingy lift (you could [...]
Use up at least a portion of your late summer glut of courgettes with this quick and easy recipe. It looks better in reality than my photo suggests, especially when you add the poached egg I completely forgot to stick on top before pressing the shutter button. With or without, though, it tastes great.
You know those neat round eggs you see in cookbooks? The ones that look like little balls of mozzarella. I’ve followed so many different instructions to try to make those, with little consistency. Cracking the egg into a whirlpool of boiling water works maybe one time in three. Sometimes you get so much white spinning [...]
What’s the difference between a fajita and a burrito? I’m not entirely sure, except one tends to be served in restaurants and the other is fast food. I think this is the former, but forgive me if I’m wrong. To convert it definitively into a burrito, wrap it in tin foil and eat noisily on [...]
If the Bell can do it with nachos, what else could make an unexpectedly excellent pizza topping? This is Sarah’s suggestion, which I cooked up last night and, well… it’s actually pretty good. It has all the major food groups – sausages, beans, cheese, eggs and bread – so I can assure you that despite [...]
This recipe is based on one from The Guardian’s Dan Lepard. Baking isn’t my strong point, so I defer to an expert on the subject. All I’ve done is add a few more seeds and some almond extract, giving it a nuttier taste. It’s well worth a go if, like me, you always seem to [...]
Having had a bit of a moan about poor pub food, it’s only right I should mention what is, as far as I’m concerned, the best pub food in Bath. The Bell on Walcot Street serves four different flatbread pizzas. Two of them are pretty much what you’d expect – the Spanish one has artichoke [...]
I sort of accidentally bought a crêpe pan at the weekend. It was an impulse buy (10% off – bargain!) and while I’m sure it’ll come in handy on pancake day, I’d better get some use out of it to justify the expense. Today was its first outing, and this recipe is designed to make [...]
According to the financial experts on this year’s The Apprentice, people won’t eat pies when it’s sunny. Judging by the queues of hungry sunburned people outside the Pieminister stalls at Glastonbury and the scorching Bristol Harbour Festival, those experts were out of touch with today’s all-weather pie-munching Britain. In this recipe I’ve cheated with a [...]
Does anybody actually need a recipe for nachos? Judging by the state of what passes for nachos in the average English pub, I’d say perhaps a little re-education is in order. I went to the Porter recently, a pub in Bath that used to be known for its excellent (and cheap) vegetarian food. A few [...]