So right now I’m sitting in my apartment in Nice on the Cote D’Azur looking out on what is possibly the most magnificent sun sets have seen this trip. I’ve been here for just over a week, I’ve eaten some incredible food, I’ve cooked some incredible food but alas as I’m on holiday I’m buggered… Read More Hake, stem broccoli and sun blushed tomatoes
If you’ve been kicking around my blog for a while you’ll know I’m all about balance, not just in terms of food but in terms of life in general (well, I’m as balanced as I can be…there are wagons I occasionally and positively love to fling myself off). So I sat thinking about the last… Read More Devilled Pugliese Poussin
My cooking has taken a bit of an ‘all in twist’ recently – no idea way, maybe its the time of year or the fact that the sun is out. Whatever the reason I’m bopping everything on one plate, board or tin and we just get ‘stuck in’. No longer do I have 4-5 separate… Read More ‘The Greek Grill’ – lamb, fennel, peppers, chickpeas… oh my!
If I have learned anything from cooking in Italy and cooking with Italians it is this……do not smother pasta with sauce…it needs to ‘sing with’ whatever you serve it with not be upsatged by it. Now, as a youngster my heart would sink ever time a big bowl of spaghetti landed in front of me… Read More Spaghetti with Salsiccia, Sun blushed tomatoes, mushrooms and aubergine
I think I prefer fish cold…I was called a ‘pervert’ once for admitting to that. But there is a caveat, it has to be oily fish like Mackerel, Tuna or in this case the very mighty Salmon…eating cold white fish (unless in a ceviche) is perverted…. I got into cold salmon working in the restaurant, I’d… Read More Bruiser’s Salmon
The Bicycle Thief 