The lone gourmet

My abiding memory of chicken supreme as a child is of the tinned variety - an unappealing glop of unidentifiable bits of poultry slathered i...

What a relief that the hungry gap is well and truly behind us - my local market has more and more different fruits and veg appearing on the...

A combination of a foot fracture, a trip away for a dear departed friend's wake and a mountain of work - all in the past fortnight - hav...

What's not to like about meatballs? They are so versatile - they go brilliantly with pasta and sauce, are delicious with mash and gravy ...

There's something about steak that frightens people a lot about cooking it at home. It's actually not that hard to get it right with...

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...