Posts by HubUK

I was delighted by the new book by Molly Stevens called "All About Roasting".   I thought I knew all about roasting until I picked up this book. I have been cooking roast dinners for more years than I care to remember so my...

Glad it's not just me either. I had never watched Nigella before so had deliberately sat down to see what I had been missing. I am still wondering what I had been missing! I don't go for sexy in the kitchen . . . not that I found her...

As I was recovering from an overdose of cooking programmes I decided to give it a miss. It seems to me that there are far too many second rate cooking programmes being created at the moment. I am glad I decided to miss this one. Think...

I made a point of watching it as I wanted to see what Marco Pierre White would be like . . . I had just finished reading his autobiography. A good read if that sort of thing interests you. I have also been watching the Raymond Blanc...

This recipe for Marco Pierre White's Fish Pie from H e l l's Kitchen is not his actual recipe but I was so impressed with the simplicity of how he made it that I decided to create my own. Watching Marco Pierre White conduct his master...

This is correct but since caul is almost impossible to get hold of these days it has been dropped from the recipe. I don't know about the origins or the Italian name but I did receive an email some years ago about Fegatelli. This...

The word faggot has the same meaning in the UK although it has fallen into disuse. It is really a bit like the word gay which we no longer use to describe someone who is happy. Who starts these things. In the UK a fag has two...

If you like pate then you are going to like faggots. This is top class comfort food. I have all the ingredients in the house ready to make another batch in the next 24 hours. Mmmmm!

I can still remember, when I was six or seven years old, travelling down to Ponterdawe in South Wales for the weekend to see my Grandmother. We would arrive just in time for lunch on a Saturday. She had a Bullmastiff dog called Gellert....

Having spent the last eighteen months helping people who organise cooking vacations or culinary tours to promote what they do I thought it was about time to check to see if I am heading in the right direction. (Even if you have never...