by Russell Brown | Jun 1, 2015 | My favourite ingredient |
English garden peas squeezed out of the pod and popped straight into your mouth are a real joy and would also be my preferred choice for cooking with when they are at their best. This is however one of those vegetables that freezes really well, so don’t ignore...
by Russell Brown | May 8, 2015 | Russell's Blog |
So Saturday April 25th was our last service at Sienna and we certainly gave ourselves a challenging night to end on! We decided that it wouldn’t feel right to do a normal service to finish up, so we combined forces with No 35 Coffee House and Kitchen, our next...
by Russell Brown | May 1, 2015 | My favourite ingredient |
English asparagus would probably rate as my single most anticipated ingredient of the year. I know the season has been hugely extended by modern growing techniques and we even see an autumn crop now, but for me I love the sense of tradition in the classic season....
by Russell Brown | Apr 16, 2015 | Russell's Blog |
It’s funny sometimes, when you live in a place, how little you actually explore it. Sometimes it takes having visitors or even moving away yourself and returning as a visitor to really get to know an area. I know I have been to many places in Cornwall over the years...
by Russell Brown | Apr 1, 2015 | My favourite ingredient |
It has to be wild garlic in April, I really can’t think of anything that sums up the start of spring better than those first shoots of the pungent, flavoursome leaf. The uses for wild garlic are many and varied but my favourite has to be wild garlic pesto, (see the...