Food Binge

This salad recipe was in the Guardian recently, and the only thing I did differently, in typical middle class foodie fashion, was buy the broad beans fresh from my gal Caroline at Cork’s Saturday farmer’s market. W shelled them while she watched the Tour de France. We also didn’t bother blanching the beans, but were [...]

Same story with the salad recipes from here. I’ll never remember to look for them when they’re buried in a list of a hundred, so here are the ones that caught my eye.
37. Cube smoked tofu, then brush it with a mixture of honey and orange juice; broil until browned. Toss with chopped cucumbers, radishes [...]

We may be in the midst (or just at the beginning?) of the greatest economic collapse of our time, but the disaster has not so far got any closer to me than my tv screen. In fact, Cork is eerily quiet. The students are back, but the streets are not heaving with fleshy orange-skinned [...]

This recipe is half remembered by my wife from some vegetarian place or other. It includes peanut butter, an American staple that leaves me cold. In fact, I bet that some time in the fifties there was a government farming subsidy for midwest peanut farmers that guaranteed a year round glut of peanut paste, forcing [...]

It seems I can’t open the Observer these days without Nigel Slater’s face mugging at me from the byline photo, as he earnestly tells me what to do with the fifty pounds worth of finest delicatessan produce I just happen to have in my fridge (‘if you don’t have any Serrano ham, just use Parma’). [...]

It’s generally agreed that I do the cooking on weekends and my wife cooks during the week. We’re traditional like that. But yesterday (Saturday) my wife insisted on cooking a spring panzanella that she got from SmittenKitchen. I’m very glad she did, because it was absolutely delicious. I’ve basically reprinted the recipe here, and I’ve [...]