Keeping a few sachets of Rustic Indian’s cook-sauces to hand is a convenient way to knock up a speedy yet ‘healthy, nutritious, vegetarian and gluten-free’ meal, like these ‘Shahi’ dishes fit for royalty.
The Bowler’s Meatball Cookbook
Isn’t mince just magic? Doesn’t need chewing and is so versatile. Use it in your spag bol or chile con carne, shape it into a burger, stuff it into peppers or roll it into balls. The last option is the one Jez Felwick feels is best and considering he’s done all right out of these balls, who can doubt him?
Kurt Fleming’s Classic Collier’s Welsh Rarebit recipe
Collier’s Cheddar does what it says on the tin- Powerful and Welsh. Use it to knock up this ultimate rarebit.
Chez Gerard- Bishopsgate
It’s very City inside – J and I being the only people in the restaurant not wearing ties. Downstairs is a busy bar while upstairs there’s a la carte on offer. It’s a bit of a climb up there as the lift only takes one person – presumably it was designed by the same people who make the escape pods for Bond villains.
STK new London steakhouse
How do you like your steak? I don’t mean rare, medium or ruined, I mean what kind of ambience do you want? The university educated, job in the media, parents in the shires, style of Hawksmoor, or the school of hard knocks, what bloody parents, making a fortune at the bank, style of STK?
Zaika pre theatre menu reviewed
A Negroni, a Manhattan, and a bowl of smoked almonds. Perfect. Seeing as we’re getting such a good-value dinner, a pre-pre-theatre menu aperitif seems more reward for our smart dining plan than profligate excess. That’s how we’re justifying it, anyway.
How To Scoff Well & Spend Less- Part II
Managing to manage your moolah and your munching? Congratulations. If you’ve been a successful scrimper you might even be ready to graduate to the advanced level of’gaining ridiculous returns for your meagre outgoings’. In the final phase you’ll get to eat out AND have treats.
Book review: Sherbet and Spice- Mary Isin
If you go and dig around the Christmas leftovers cupboard- what do you mean you don’t got one?- you might find one of those whimsical, hexagonal boxes of Turkish delight. And you might think a few glunky cubes would be the perfect accompaniment to this sweet tome. Wrong.
Divine Vegan Desserts – Lisa Fabry
Vegetarians eh? Blooming nuisances that they are, always checking you haven’t used non veggie stock in their soup or slipped some gelatine in their jelly. If there’s one thing worse than a veggie round for dinner though, it has to be a vegan. They won’t eat anything that isn’t 100% made of plants.
Nostalgia and contemporary excess from Fox’s
If you held back over Christmas and the new year, dipping into generously chocolate-dipped Fox’s biscuits won’t seem over-indulgent, particularly as they are now on offer. Half-price must mean half the calories, Joanna Biddolph asserts.