Salted Chocolate Hazelnut Spread
Salted Chocolate Hazelnut Spread bursting with smooth chocolate, creamy hazelnuts, a salty kick and hints of sweet vanilla. Delicious on fresh bread or toast, on pancakes, over ice cream or on a banana split. But honestly, sometimes…
Softening Brown Sugar
Have you ever gone into your kitchen cupboard for brown or muscovado sugar to find it is rock solid? This should only happen if you have opened a packet but how often do you use a whole…
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Brown Butter
Brown butter, also known as Beurre Noisette, is a simple, wonderful way of adding depth of flavour to both sweet and savoury food. It adds a rich, caramelised, nutty unami to your dishes. You simply need to…
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Wild Garlic and Basil Pesto with Mature Cheddar and Gruyere Cheese
This vibrant pesto packs a huge flavour punch loaded with wild garlic and basil as well as gruyere and mature cheddar cheese. Wild garlic is normally easy to find in our woodlands – you can generally smell…
Teriyaki Sauce
There’s a good reason Teriyaki is one of Japan’s most well known sauces – it is a totally delicious sweet, salty, sticky, shiny, sauce which packs a huge flavour punch with layers of unami. Even better, it…
Middle Eastern Spice Mix
Tabouli was the first food I ate associated with the Middle East and I had that in Australia at the back end of the 1980s. I moved to London in the early 1990s and London has an…
Curry Spice Mix
This is my most complex spice mix, it is bit more fiddly to make (but not difficult), has a long list of ingredients and a few more bits of equipment. It took me a while and a…
Goulash Spice Mix
It seems appropriate that the image of this spice has the Swiss Alps in the background. Whenever I think of goulash, I think of the mountains. More often than not, this will be the Swiss Alps. Virtually…
Mexican Spice Mix
I use this wonderful and versatile spice mix in a range of dishes, as a dry rub and in marinades. It is one of the easiest to make and requires no dry frying or grinding. Simply, measure…