LW is full of ideas for making great meals and consequently is often sought for her recipes. She doesn’t write them down, giving pointers whenever she’s asked.
Perhaps that’s the way to go for which cook, good or bad, follows recipes slavishly anyway, given the mnany things that can’t always be replicated — ingredients, size of kitchen, adequacy of [...]
Archive for the ‘recipes’ Category
17 Sep
Cheap & good eat: fast to fix
5 Oct
KISS-style cooking
Considering that when I first went to the UK to study, I barely knew how to boil water, it seemed something of a miracle that the first paid work in my life was to cook for an aristocratic family who hired me for six weeks as a “mother’s help” while their real one went on summer [...]
26 Aug
Waste not, want not
I hate to make this a habit: quoting again from the Sunday Times, I mean but I guess there’s no running away that it does provide some fodder for food chat.
So, here I go again. On Sunday, (Aug 24), I found something really worthwhile in the papers, a link from its usually rubbishy Hot Clicks section: [...]
13 Jul
Cooking without oil
Since I began cooking without oil from October 2006, I’ve never missed the stuff. My taste buds have changed, as have those of my mother’s. Even those of my family (and the maid who joined us in March 2008) who eat my cooking occasionally have learnt the pleasure of eating food with little or no oil.
This [...]
