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Ever wonder what Catherine sounds like?Listen to her read this blog entry. If I’d married my brother Rob, I trust we’d still be sitting together in the back seat of the car, taking turns laying a single tormenting finger on the other person’s side and screaming with indignation. “You’re on my side! Mom! Rob’s on my [...]
Bedfellows
I have nearly all of my best conversations in bed. Not with friends as a rule – unless we’re lucky enough to have captured someone in the house for a sleepover. Usually friendship conversations happen now in deeply condensed bursts, and although I miss the languorous chitchat of pre-kid days, I treasure the way intimacy [...]
Tooth, Wisdom
Because we moved in the dead of winter, the warming days have brought us a string of beautiful surprises: Oh! we say about the tree we’ve been watching for months now as round, ice-encased buds burst into flat, waxy blooms. That’s a dogwood! A bed of little chive-like clumps turns out to be grape hyacinths; another bed [...]
Harome-reared duck with lemon thyme mash and traditional Yorkshire sauce
Ingredients For the duck 4 duck legs 1 star anise 1 fresh bay leaf 1 litre/2 pints duck fat, melted 4 duck chipolatas 2 boneless duck breasts For the Yorkshire sauce 1 orange 200ml/7fl oz red wine 110g/4oz redcurrant jelly 150g/5oz caster sugar 110ml/4fl oz duck jus (reduced duck stock) For the lemon thyme mash 500g/17½oz mashed potato 110g/4oz unsalted butter 110ml/4fl oz whipping cream salt and freshly [...]
Angela’s slow roasted ginger pork
Ingredients 1 shoulder of pork weighing approximately 4kg/8lb 2oz skin scored 4 garlic cloves, peeled and roughly chopped 4cm/1½inch piece fresh root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped 3 tbsp olive oil 4 tbsp white wine vinegar Preparation method Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas mark 7. Place the pork skin-side up on a rack over a roasting tin. Place the garlic [...]
Amersham pork chops with Barnet celeriac mash and apple and ale gravy
Ingredients 1 large celeriac 150g/5oz butter, plus extra for the sauce salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 large onion 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 3 Cox’s apples, peeled 425ml/¾ pint London Pride ale (or similar) 4 pork chops 2 tsp vegetable oil For the salad ½ tsp Dijon mustard 1 tbsp white wine vinegar 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 250g/9oz rocket leaves
Alternative fish and chips
Ingredients For the chips 225g/8oz floury potatoes, for example, Maris Piper vegetable oil, for deep frying salt For the fish 2 free-range eggs, separated 200g/7oz plain flour, plus extra for dredging 1 tbsp desiccated coconut 200ml/7fl oz ice cold water (more or less if required) 1 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon 1 tbsp chopped fresh mint 4 x 150g/5oz whiting fillets salt [...]
All things duck
Ingredients For the chicken mousse 1 chicken breast, skin removed, roughly chopped 1 tsp chopped fresh thyme leaves 1 fat garlic clove, peeled and chopped 1 free-range egg white 2 tbsp double cream salt and freshly ground white pepper For the duck 1 whole duck, including offal 1 tbsp clear honey salt and freshly ground black pepper
A broth of Scottish shellfish
Ingredients 2 live lobsters, each about 500g/1lb 2oz at least 16 good-sized live langoustines in shell salt 4 large handfuls of fresh mussels in shell, about 800g/1lb 12oz total weight 4 smaller handfuls of fresh clams in shell a few fresh razor clams in shell 50g/2oz unsalted butter 1 small onion, finely chopped glass of white wine squeeze of lemon juice large handful chopped parsley [...]