Country Life, Food and Drink
Everybody, everywhere, eats vegetables, and if you don’t, you should. If brussel sprouts and green beans don’t haunt you from your childhood then there is something wrong. Back then, the only thing that got you through the many mouthfuls of greens was the...
Country Life, Food and Drink, Gardens
Five floral treats taking place in London this summer. ALAIN DUCASSE’S ‘LUNCH FLOWER MENU’ AT THE DORCHESTER Highlights of the menu include playful dishes such as the ‘Flowering vegetable garden, fresh herb condiment’, ‘Watercress velouté, Lily pad ‘our way’, ‘Fillet...
Cake recipes, Food and Drink, Recipes, Summer recipes
Carrot cake, but not as you know it. This is carrot cake, but not as you know it – the delicious, blood-orange soaked sultanas add such flavour to the already moist sponge, elevating the humble carrot to something rather special. Carrot, blood-orange and hazelnut cake...
Food and Drink, Recipes, Spring recipes, Summer recipes
Some like it hot: succulent leg meat with a crisp skin sings with Asian flavours such as sesame, chilli and soy.There is a dark sesame paste one can find in Asian grocers that is particularly good, here. Otherwise, use tahini paste. Crisp-and-hot chicken salad with...
Food and Drink, Recipes, Spring recipes, Summer recipes
A creamy tarragon dressing is the perfect accompaniment to this chicken and pea-shoot salad. Cold-chicken salad with tarragon-cream dressing and pea shoots (serves 4 as a light luncheon dish served with warm new potatoes) Ingredients For the salad Cooked chicken...
