The lone gourmet

I can't claim any ownership of these two classic Greek dishes, but when the weather's hot the simplicity of both makes the perfect m...

Happy days - it's hot, finally, meaning I can stop having my oven on for an hour every day. It's salad time, which is good because w...

By now you're probably aware how much I love goat meat . It's not eaten just in Greece, but all round the Med - I've never quite...

The more I think about it, the more I realise that food parcels are a jewel in any lone gourmet's crown. One of the downsides of living ...

Nearly the end of May and the weather is still so erratic that my cooking is veering between winter comfort food one day and lighter summer ...

I don't have an allotment (I wish), so I can't have a little boast about beating off stiff competition from other gardeners for grow...

Fennel is a very underrated vegetable, I think - we don't eat nearly enough of it in the UK and it can be hard to find as many supermark...

Bubble and squeak is the classic way to use up leftover mash and greens, usually from the Sunday lunch. The greens are most likely to be spr...

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...