What's a Barnsley chop? Is it safe to cook with clingfilm? Our resident glutton solves these and other culinary dilemmasIn March, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall gave a recipe for castagnaccio using chestnut flour, which I can't find anywhere.I must say, I've never had much trouble in finding the stuff. Shipton Mill makes its own, though it's "only seasonally available and in very sho
Restaurant review: Apsleys, London SW1 | Matthew Norman
Posted by edwina 16 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Heinz Beck is a German superchef whose restaurant in Rome is deemed one of the world's best. Now he's opened in London. But why should Matthew Norman care?In an age of innocence long before that little poppet on the Glade advert stated his desire to evacuate his bowels at Paul's, the TV ad that drove me closest to psychosis concerned microwavable pizza. It wittered on, in a Mind Your Languag
Can I buy a pestle seperately, or do I have to get a whole new set, and other culinary dilemmasI was given a granite mortar and pestle and it's far superior to the ceramic one I had before. But the pestle broke recently and I can't find a replacement. Can you help, or do I have to buy a whole new set?Thank you for raising this problem, because the same thing happened to me a few weeks a
On frozen baby onions, bread flours, foams and tinned pumpkin revisitedI spent several years in Germany and enjoyed the food there, especially the dishes that contained baby onions. There, I could buy bags of frozen baby onions, but I can't find them in the UK. Tesco has been known to sell bags of organic baby onions (89p for 400g), Asda has what it calls fresh bronzing pearls, Waitrose sto
Mat Follas, 2009 MasterChef winner, has opened a restaurant. Has he bitten off more than he can chew? Far from itAdducing a corpse as a witness for anything is a cheap and distasteful gambit, so let me begin by suggesting that Keith Floyd, who died after lunching elsewhere in Dorset a few days after our visit, would have adored Mat Follas's first restaurant and might even have identifie
Can you buy beechnuts in the UK? Is frozen rice safe? Matthew Fort has the answersOn the continent, you can buy beechnuts from some grocers. I've been told that my parents and grandparents used chickens' legs to scratch through leaves when they went out to collect beechnuts. Will I have to do the same? I can't find a UK stockist anywhere.I'm afraid you will. There's littl
Your culinary dilemmas solvedA friend made us a divine chocolate harvest cake with a pumpkin cream filling when we visited Boston last year. The recipe includes tinned pumpkin, which I can't find here – any ideas? Or can I use fresh pumpkin instead?You can use fresh, but in my experience this turns pastry into something akin to blotting paper that's been left in a sink. The&nb
Restaurant review: Opus, Birmingham | Matthew Norman
Posted by edwina 72 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
A testament to the transformative power of fine cookingSuch an arduous day had it already been, with many hours on jammed motorways either side of a vast lunch in Bradford, that spirits were low and intestinal acid levels high as we reached Birmingham. What are you hoping for from Opus, I asked the friend known as the Idiot, thanks to an addiction to hideous punning."What I hope," he replie
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