I love picnics and salads and jars. Combine all three with this portable layered salad idea. I was trying to make a Jubilee salad (red white and blue) but frustratingly discovered that are there are ...
First smoke your mackerel. Only kidding! But smoking is easier than you think, especially hot smoking. Just buy a little kit or come to one of the Secret Garden Clubs smoking courses. (By the way, th...
In my house we joke about red dinner and green dinner, the words my daughter used when growing up, to describe our most regular meals. Green dinner is, of course, pasta with basil sauce. Pesto sauce ...
Buttered Jersey Royal potatoes After my visit to Jersey a few weeks ago I was excited to try out the produce for a supper club dinner at The Underground Restaurant: kidney-shaped firm nutty potatoes,...
Laverstoke Farm burrata, which unfortunately I didnt get to taste, they made it specially for me, but I hope my guests liked it. Pic by Bellaphon Toynbee Hall. Pic by Bellaphon. On May Day I was aske...
Fjallbacka Fika of chocolate cake with blueberry whipped cream The Kings Cleft Breakfast at Fjallbacka Like Midsomer in England, the problem with Fjallbacka, a dozy fishing village in West Sweden, is...
Sushi on a stick with edamame peas! My influence for this meal came from American food blogger Matt Armendariz book On a Stick. It has pages of inspiring recipes, all of them, naturally, thread...
In their little red house in the woods, where bobcats and ferrets roam through oak trees, wild flowers and sorrel, Patrik and Zandra make butter for the best restaurants in the world.Owls hoot and th...
What are you doing? asked Tommy.Well, if I say Im sweeping the chimney you wouldnt believe me, as clever as you are said Pippi. As a matter of fact, Im baking. but that will soon be out of the way. y...
Inspired by the feasts and food of Georgia and also by some of the tapas I recently had in Seville, last night I created a menu for a Natural Wine dinner at the Large Glass gallery near Caledonian Ro...
Its afternoon, Im in the Sherry hotel and Ive been drinking sherry for 48 hours straight. Hard core eh? However this is not a mumsnet Sherry bender version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, for Ive ...
One of the things that I love about the Secret Garden Club is that I can experiment within the bounds of the theme that we have set. This week was all about Mediterranean Vegetables. I made Ratatouil...
I love all that Survivalist stuff! Heres what my research suggests that you should have in case of apocalypse: Equipment:A pressure cooker Food grade plastic buckets Equipment for digging a wel...
Jeans signature dish: sausage surprise While soap stars and fading actors have been hogging the cookbook shelves and cooking telly for the last few years, conversely, the popularity of food programmi...
This morning I used the roots that I bought in Georgia to dye my eggs red. In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the red egg denotes the blood of Christ. Eggs have much symbolism attached to them: ...
Outside the sulphur baths The sulphur bath Georgian writing. The word in the middle is crossed out. I get a taxi to the sulphur baths in Tbilisi which cost 5 lari, about £1.50p. Its supposed to cost ...
"Id like to toast the country of Georgia, our hosts, the incredible work youve done to preserve the method of natural wine making, the food, the drink" "I want to drink to our guests...
At Gatwick I squinted at the Aerosvit sign. It was a cheapo airline, an offshoot of International Ukrainian Airways. Groan. My cankles cant handle it, I live in fear of DVT. Channelling my dad (in hi...
Jersey Royal potatoes, lightly boiled, paper-thin skins on, then sautéd in butter. Jersey Royals for sale at the roadside Potatoes and vegetables are often sold via Honesty Box; Farmer Didier h...
Secret Garden Club: April 15th: Med Veg: all those lovely nightshade ve ggies that are so hard to grow in the UK: aubergines and&n bsp;peppers! Then a delicious...
Catherine gave me this rustic nutmeg grater from Dominica. I have a fetish for foreign kitchenalia. Catherine Phipps in the kitchen Prep list My supper club with Catherine Phipps, cooking Dominican f...
Bright fruity Scotch Bonnet peppers. The only way to tell if they are genuine Scotch Bonnets, according to Catherine Phipps, is by making a tiny incision with your thumb nail (when the stall holder i...
The food writer Catherine Phipps is the author of next Saturdays meal at The Underground Restaurant. I asked her to write a guest blog post on her time spent as a cook working in Dominica. Here is he...
I always thought you couldnt beat Heinz tomato ketchup, but this weekend I proved myself wrong. Its a little time consuming but its so worth making your own, even just to prove you can do it. This re...
Do you go to Asian supermarkets and peer at the ingredients, guessing just how you might make use of them? Ive been doing that for years. It seems Ive been getting it all wrong. Nothing like a lesson...
Home-made Egg Mcmuffins Ricotta hotcakes with seared blood oranges and a jug of maple syrup Underground Egg Mcmuffins Marmite on Aga toast Bloody Marys with mustard and horseradish and whatever else ...
Chocolate Potato Cake with chocolate dipped potato crisp on top (Sorry, had already drunk the cocktail by the time I photographed this.) But...this is Chases Potato vodka. We did a taste test of good...
Spuds u like is the witty title of this exploration of potatoes I am hosting tomorrow at The Secret Garden Club. To grow and to eat... Here is my menu: Sweet potato cocktail (if this sounds biza...
Last summer photographer Simon Brown (also famous for his photographs of Airstream caravans) and his gorgeous wife, the stylist and interiors blogger Liz Bauwens came over to shoot my house for ...
Revitalising warmth, golden light, Italianate architecture, rich old people with tanned faces and coiffed white hair, big sunglasses, proper lunch....can you visit the South of France for just one da...
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