The lone gourmet

This cheat's ice cream is the best way I know to use up overripe bananas. It's not quite instant but it involves very little work, h...

It's very rare for me to cook curry at home , as I've said before. So when I was asked to try out the Quick and Easy Indian Cookbook...

This is one of my favourite ways to eat potatoes - it's rich, silky, unctuous and garlicky. It takes only 5 minutes to prepare and then ...

This almost-cakey slab of savoury carbs is really easy to knock up and the kind of thing I'm likely to bake when I need a supply of snac...

Flammekueche, street food from Alsace, is probably best described as a Franco-German pizza. You won't find any tomato sauce on it, or ol...

I absolutely love making this Portuguese classic of cabbage, potatoes and spicy sausage - it's a really simple but very nourishing soup ...

Rabbit was something I ate regularly during my sojourn abroad - it was fairly easy to find on the butchers' slabs in the Parisian market...

I call this 3B pasta and it's really easy to make although it does use three pans. I think it's worth it, though, as the flavours go...

No recipe today, but some food for thought. Yesterday evening, I took part in an event called Dining in the Dark here in Manchester. Along...

Soups are currently top of my menu as the weather gets chillier and I crave something substantial, warming and comforting. Soup generally ti...