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My Land of Fish and Rice
23rd July 2017

I've just had a massive clear out of cookbooks full of things I can't eat these days or adapt. Twitter helpfully suggested the site We Buy Books which was as …


Marinated Fresh Anchovies
8th May 2016

I think anchovies might be my favourite ingredient in the kitchen. Or at least the one I use the most. I don't do a lot of vegan or veggie cooking …


Salt Cod Scotch Eggs
30th April 2016

Salt cod is one of things I always want to use more of in cooking since I live in an area that is heavily Portuguese and Caribbean and it's a …


Devilled Sardines and Tomato Charlotte
13th March 2016

As the entire world is now aware, I've got some food issues that make me feel very unwell at times. At home this is usually treated by undoing my top …


Cream of Potato Soup
11th March 2015

For some reason despite more or less worshipping at the shrine of the spud, I have never made a potato soup without adding either leeks or kale for caldo verde. …


Sichuan Pepper Cured Mackerel
23rd June 2013

The weather has warmed up just enough and the sun has come out long enough to make it feel like summer might be limbering up to actually do something. It's …


Slow Cooked Stuffed Squid
19th May 2013

  I adore squid. I'm sure it would feature in my last meal, the only debate being whether it's a starter or the star of the show. So it always makes …


Sprats Escovitch
4th March 2013

  Sprats may not have the most appealing name, but they are well worth looking at twice (or naming twice like their Latin name of sprattus sprattus) especially if you make …


Haddock Roe Pate
3rd March 2013

I am incapable these days of passing up the opportunity to buy something new to me when I'm food shopping. About the only spontaneity I go for is impulse shopping …


Dulse Tapenade
16th September 2012

When I was a child, I hadn't yet discovered my high umami fascination. Olives didn't tickle me, I only liked anchovies marinaded and one of the strongest memories of disliking …


Saltfish and Parsnip Croquettes
14th May 2012

When I was wee, you saw croquettes on menus quite often, usually involved leftover potato and tinned fish in luridly orange breadcrumbs and often oddly accompanied by chips for triple …


Homemade Rollmop Herring
22nd September 2011

You can tell I'm half Scottish. I love oats, raspberries are my favourite fruit and I never say no to haggis. But the real clincher is how much I heart …


Grilled Sprats
13th April 2010

May I introduce you to the perfect light spring lunch? Grilled sprats with a chunk of fresh ciabatta on a sunny April afternoon... Sprattus Sprattus are small herring-like oily fish, a …




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