by Russell Brown | May 1, 2015 | Uncategorized |
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 | Uncategorized |
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 | Uncategorized |
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...
by Russell Brown | Mar 30, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Well, it took a few attempts but I think we now have a pretty decent hot cross bun recipe sorted! This is something I have made a few times before but didn’t have a recipe written down for, so it has been a while! As is often the case in this situation, I had...
by Russell Brown | Mar 26, 2015 | Uncategorized |
It has been called an obsession, maybe it is an addiction, but most likely it is just plain old gluttony.I do love good chocolate! I have never trained in pastry, in fact I didn’t go to a catering college at all, but the dessert side of my cooking has always...
by Russell Brown | Mar 12, 2015 | Uncategorized |
I have spent a lot of time on my photography recently but most of it has been food shots for various things; Dorchester Life, the new Dorset food magazine Menu and, of course, for the blog, so I thought it was time to upload a few new images to the galleries. We did...
