All Recipes and Skills

Authentic Butter Chicken Recipe – No Tandoor Required

https://youtu.be/U_M_AvTDcTc Let me take you back to Pakistan, Peshawar and Gora Bazaar where some 100 years ago Punjabi Mocha Singh Lamba started a small roadside restaurant known as a dhaba.

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

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

Poaching Back – A Short Film

A short film I shot and edited on the simplicity of poaching an egg. Although I would say that for such simplicity it has taken me a few changes of

Episode 2: An Amazing Discovery and Sizzling Pork Neck

Hey, great news; this is episode 2 of the vlog. In this episode I go to a farmers’ market where there was a truly sensational discovery (clue is something to do

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

Chicken Liver Pate with Calvados

https://youtu.be/s00I7pF6BuE Chicken livers cooked in Calvados, the apple infused brandy, adds a wonderful twist to this classic and amazing French pate.

Spiced and Smoked Potted Duck

I make potted duck once every fews months or so. It’s labour intensive but one of the best things to eat, without doubt. It’s cured, confited, smoked and then shredded.

Squid and Lemon Black Risotto Croatian Style

Introduction I thought I’d change it up a bit and do some country specific food writing and cooking. Hugging the Adriatic Sea with its multitude of small islands is Croatia

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

Lentils, Hock and Roots – A Comforting Homemade Soup

The last time I tasted this soup I was but just a kid. I was transported immediately back to childhood on tasting it again a few days ago. I didn’t