The lone gourmet

Spring may be in the air but there's still a chill around in the evenings and I reckon I'll still be cooking a few cold-weather favo...

I'm not alone in my love for a bit of melted cheese - fondue, cheese on toast, Welsh rarebit, slices of squeaky grilled halloumi... We c...

I tweeted in passing the other week that I'd rustled up a vegetable tagine and someone tweeted back to ask for the recipe. Alas, I hadn...

This hearty, warming soup is incredibly easy to make and can be almost flung together from ingredients you already have. It's a good way...

I've just come back from a two-day trip to Lille in northern France. Apart from doing a bit of sightseeing, which on previous trips I...

Paella can seem a pretty daunting prospect for one - those fancy paella pans all look big enough to feed an army and the quantities of ingre...

Mackerel is one of my favourite fish. The fact that it's both cheap and nutritionally sound is a bonus on top of its creamy, fleshy text...

Pease pudding is such a quintessentially English dish it's even got its own nursery rhyme.Yet it seems to have not only gone out of fash...

Ever since I learned how to cook it, I've been making kedgeree backwards and it was years before I discovered I'd been doing it wron...

A dish of tartiflette is pure indulgence - the blend of sautéed potatoes, onion, bacon and cheese smothered in cream then topped with breadc...