How I learned to love cooking
Posted by edwina 69 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
A former culinary disaster on how Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers's River Cafe recipes turned him into a true foodieUntil about 15 years ago I was strictly a food-is-fuel man: the only point of eating was to keep me going. Life being too short to peel mushrooms but long enough to reach for the can-opener, I ate tinned pilchards, tuna and baked beans, often – to the horror of friends – directly and unhe
Video: Nigel Slater's Tender: Growing and cooking tomatoes
Posted by edwina 71 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Nigel Slater rounds off his series of veg-inspired videos with a tribute to tomatoesNigel Slater
Video: Nigel Slater's Tender: Growing and cooking courgettes
Posted by edwina 74 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Nigel Slater on the gentle art of courgette cultivationNigel Slater
Take pride in Scottish cooking
Posted by edwina 99 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
A former Mastechef winner says simple Scots cooking is some of the best in the worldFormer Masterchef winner Sue Lawrence has called on Scots to take pride in their traditional cooking, which might be simple but offers treats as good as Proust's madeleines.Launching a book of recipes from 70 famous Scots, Taste Ye Back, Lawrence told the Edinburgh International Book Festival that Scottish cookin
Laura Barton on vegetarian cooking
Posted by edwina 131 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
From truffle framboise vinaigrette to fennel pollen – meat-free recipes can be a gourmet's dream, if you know where to look for them, says Laura BartonIn the early years the menus were always a little grim: wan-looking mushroom stroganoff, mushy beanburgers, Quorn fillets and chilli-non-carne. With time came endless rolls of spinach and ricotta cannelloni and the almost tyrannical reign of wild
Cooking African land snails
Posted by edwina 143 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
The first video in a new series of challenging culinary experiences sees our award-winning food blogger learn how to tackle the African Land SnailI consider I've been pretty lucky in the genetic lottery. Sure, I'm as near to ovoid as an erect hominid can physically manage but, while my parents gifted me with male pattern baldness, the capacious eyebags of a dolorous spaniel and a two-inch lateral
The Iraqi Cookbook aims to bring the rich culture of Iraq to the tables of Britain. Here are four recipes to get you started - or do you already cook Iraqi?For many years now, and especially since 2003, the media have been bombarding us with news, images and reports from Iraq which paint a very negative picture. To me, as someone born and raised in Baghdad and with deep roots in the country, the
Q Our rhubarb leaves are looking so glossy and green this year that it seems a shame to throw them away. Is there any way I can cook them?AileenA No, Aileen, there isn't. They are poisonous in quantity. Put them on the compost.Q How could I use 10 dried (whole) lemons which my brother-in-law brought back for me from Dubai? MarionA Marion, tuck one of them into a slowly cooked dish of chicken, por
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