Category: British
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Festive Pickled Shallots
It’s a month before Yule and my thoughts have turned, unsurprisingly enough, to the festive table. Now I must confess, I’m not usually a fan of pickled onions – their sharp onion flavour and the acid tang of vinegar has never really been my thing. However by using the milder shallots and cider vinegar, along… Read more
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Homemade Orange Curd
This is one of those recipes I found really daunting but which is in fact really easy and the work of just a few minutes. This doesn’t make a lot, but that’s ok because it has a fairly short shelf life of about a month, yet you’ll get enough to do several rounds of toast,… Read more
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Low-Carb Cottage Pie
A cottage pie is a wonderfully comforting thing, and as it’s very easy on the purse strings it would regularly turn up on our table when I was a kid. A traditional dish of minced beef with a mashed potato topping, it has always been a favourite of mine, though I am also quite partial to… Read more
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Sage and Onion Toad in the Hole
Who doesn’t like toad in the hole? For any non-Brits who might be confused, this is a classic dish of sausages cooked in batter – a comfort food staple because it’s cheap and very filling. Another classic combination is sage and onion; in this case chopped sage is added to the batter to mellow out… Read more