All Recipes and Skills

How to Make a Classic Hollandaise – Video

Some extra notes: Hollandaise sauce is one of the classic French mother sauces. It is essentially an egg-emulsified butter sauce and as such a good hollandaise should have the butter

Vietnamese Style Cantaloupe

During a sabbatical to Hanoi in Vietnam I wrote a top ten list of my absolute must-try street food haunts; all of which were throughly researched (well eaten at) beforehand.

The Perfect Smoky Coffee Cure for Beef (I’m Thinking Brisket)

This is a sweet, bitter, salty and spicy post. It’s a barbecue beef coffee cure that I worked on a few days ago and tested out on some slow-cooked brisket.

A Venezuelan Classic – Carne Mechada with Arepas

https://youtu.be/PoPmhU-GkAIAt my local coffee house there was this great barista, whose coffees were spot on and her jovial manner made it a pleasure to drop on by. One day she

Finding That Cooking Spark – This Italian Sauce Did It

https://youtu.be/ifPJg20_xBs?si=WL0_6E3Ie53jQ59B Motivation to Cook – Where has it Gone? I’ve been cooking seriously for 20 years yet I have a fear – a fear of going in to the kitchen

Borlotti Bean Stew – Tuscan Style

Heading Title Honey from a weed. it’s a wonderful idea of being able to extract one of life’s most incredible natural foods from an invasive, meandering and annoying pestilence. But

You’ll Never Go Back to 🍏 Pie – APPLE CRUMBLE CAKE

https://youtu.be/PdMvRqJRmk0 I don’t often video desserts – not sure why as I do make them often – but after making this one I felt compelled to share it with you

EP #1 – Your Cooking Starts Here (And a Lemon Tart)

Here’s the printable version of the lemon tart recipe from the vlog.

How to Create a Recipe – Local Purple Cauliflower

I think the way forward with respect to cooking is a throwback to how the traditional French restaurant would prepare its menu. The chef would rise early, go to the

How to Make a Smoking Ancho Chilli Purée

There’s nothing quite like the intensity and flavour of a chilli purée – especially one that is made from dried chillies. Although you don’t get that freshness associated with just-picked

Gorgeous Broad Bean Dip and Roti that Anyone Can Make

https://youtu.be/UQJKwgUB0g8?si=57HAex5AUTZ8ucUA This is a most wonderful broad bean dip that I made from some fabulous broad beans purveyed from a local grower. I started by thinking about what flavours I