Mushroom buckwheat galettes
Make pancake day a little more Mardi Gras this year by making these French-style buckwheat galettes for your main course.
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Recipe writing and food styling by Susie Carter
Far flung favours
Here you’ll find recipes that I’ve picked up from my travels like souvenirs, plus culinary reviews and other assorted travel writing.
Red-braised pork belly for Chinese New Year
This recipe featured in the April 2018 edition of Hampshire Life magazine with wine matches from Berry Bros & Rudd. This is one of my favourite ways of cooking pork belly. The succulent meat really lends itself to gentle Chinese spicing and works well with …
Bengal Sage tasting menu with Saurav Nath and Toscanaccio
The Bengal Sage has become a Winchester institution in the 3 short years since taking up residence on George Street. It’s the place that locals in-the-know go to wallow in slow-cooked buffalo bhuna heaven and enjoy surely the best onion bhajis in the country. Like …
In search of Gueuze
It’s been 5 months since my last post – a case of too much time eating and not enough time writing about it (though that is, of course, the best way round…). One trip that definitely deserves a belated mention is a trip we took …
Lunch at Le Manoir
For our birthdays this year, our families had bought us both a voucher for lunch at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons. At the time we were in the depths of moving house and when we booked, August seemed like ages away, but all of a …
Incidental pho
I made an oxtail curry on Friday, the by-product of which was a gloriously intense broth from slow-cooking the oxtail with whole spices. The smell of the stock cooking took me back to our trip last year to Vietnam and my many attempts to recreate …
A cassoulet pilgrimage
I’ve just come back from 10 days in the South West of France and I’m already mourning the end of lunchtime drinking and river swimming. The weather hasn’t helped – flying back over the New Forest and seeing fields that were more puddle than grass …
Foraging for chanterelles
After our fantastic wild strawberry haul on Monday, we couldn’t resist a second trip. While the Dordogne hasn’t seen quite the insane amount of rainfall that we’ve suffered recently, it has been a wetter than usual spring and now that flaming June is in full …
Lynch Bages visit
My folks are only about an hour’s drive from Bordeaux, so we always try to fit in at least one trip when we visit. Today it was the turn of Lynch Bages, a 90 hectares chateau just outside the town of Pauillac. Although the wine …
