The lone gourmet

If I'm eating out and duck confit is on the menu, it's pretty much a given that I'll order it. It's irresistible, delicious ...

I love green beans a lot but my culinary repertoire with them was very limited until I went to live in France for years. In my youth, they w...

Risotto is my go-to comfort food when I need something soothing and creamy and I have two standby favourites - my chicken and pea risotto a...

Pie again. In one of those surreal flights of daydreamery, I imagine a world in which the Talking Heads sing a song called "More Songs ...

I've been making this dish so long, a sort of one-portion hotpot, I have totally forgotten if it came from a recipe in a book or a magaz...

It's been National Pie Week and hard to avoid it when all the food magazines are plugging it everywhere. Not that I mind - I'm rath...

For such a simple dish, there's been an awful lot of hoohah written about how to make ratatouille - whole columns on which order to add ...

I had a major craving for heat the other day. Not the sort where I pile on the woollies and sit with my back to the radiator, but heat in th...

Those jars of Thai red or green curry paste you can pick up in any supermarket are the sort of thing it's useful to keep in the back of ...

I like making things to eat but I also like making things to cook with. I make my own stock when I have bones, for example, and I buy certa...