These delicious new biscuits, one bite versions of the grown-up Fox’s Melts, are ideal for sharing. Apparently, says Joanna Biddolph after eating the whole pack herself.
Tuck into a tasty day out at this year’s Stratford Food Festival
For those of you for whom Stratford-upon-Avon summons up visions of hags around a cauldron […]
Looking to clean up. Thomas Keller brings The French Laundry to London
A ‘pop up restaurant (yes, yawn, another) it will be called ‘The French Laundry at Harrods” but we hope the cooking will have a bit more imagination than that. It should do, Keller has a fine reputation at his home restaurant (he lives next door) which he started in 1994.
Keda Black’s The Illustrated Student Cookbook
There’s nothing worse than coming home to see that your flatmate has been cooking. And that he has dirtied every single piece of kitchen equipment you own in the process. You wonder why he even tried in the first place — you’ve never seen the kid do anything beyond nuking some leftover curry before, so why now? Maybe it’s because he has got himself a copy of Keda Black’s The Illustrated Student Cookbook. Inside are 35 recipes which require limited cooking equipment — a toaster, oven, microwave, and hotplate, and a Survival Kit of essential kitchen tools.
Mediterranean Seared Tuna Steaks: bottlegreen’s August recipe
Look ahead to the Bank Holiday and start planning a wonderful weekend with your family and friends. Whether sunshine or showers these delicious tuna steaks can be sizzled on the barbecue or you can take shelter inside and cook them on the grill. Marinate fresh tuna steaks in bottlegreen’s aromatic lime cordial and olive oil before speedily cooking on either side. Serve with a spicy salsa of crunchy cucumber and red onion combined with fiery red chillis, coriander and zesty lime cordial to add some zing to this Mediterranean inspired summer lunch.
Monday, August 8 Wine Dinner The 1 Lombard Street Cellar Greats
1 Lombard Street the restaurant and brasserie in the City of London opposite the Bank of England has recently launched a Wine Society. The Society offers the opportunity to taste and learn about some of the world’s greatest wines, and to meet many of the people who produce them.
The next wine dinner on August 8 when sommelier Matthew Mawtus will present some of his favourite vintages from the 1 Lombard Street cellar.
The point of Cantina del Ponte
‘What’s the point of sitting inside at a restaurant whose USP is the view of Tower Bridge?” I whisper, menacingly, to a quivering S at Cantina del Ponte. S, who arrived at the Italian restaurant ten minutes before me, has happily plonked herself inside on a summer’s night when I wanted to sit on its lavender and olive-planted terrace.
ProCook Scales
We give ProCook glass digital scales a trial in a small, urban kitchen to discover that dishes with proper cooking measurements are hard to fault.
The Free Range Cook by Annabel Langbein
The Free Range Cook reflects the essence of New Zealand life: easy, relaxed, wholesome, fresh, warm-hearted, generous. Getting lost in its 320 pages, and especially its spectacular photos, is the cheapest way to travel there, says Joanna Biddolph not long after visiting New Zealand.
A la Cruz an Argentine BBQ restaurant in London
A converted pub in a previously neglected backwater, A La Cruz’s interior is enlivened by fancy wall art and it’s a fresh, clean place. The asador burns brightly and next to it is a barbecue of the crudest kind, its cooking grill simply raised or lowered by a chain pulley. It’s simple but it’s also an art and head Chef Adrian Cocco keeps a close eye on it, manoeuvring steaks of all shapes and sizes, as well as plump chorizos and ribs, around carefully.