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Ode to the Skirt Steak: Recipes and Where to Eat it
I love steak. So much so that I’ve belonged to a steak club for over five years, once ate steak five times in one week and still brazenly cook it in order to make friends. I remember being unable to...
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Nut butter and Butternut Squash soup with Salami Crisps
Butternut Squash Soup with a secret ingredient...It's the month before Christmas. A month filled with half-asleep sleeps from the run of festive parties. I begin to expect the regular full-moon...
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What to drink with Bavette, by Ruth Ford
Must drink..! An irregular column from wine-botherer Ruth Ford ...to accompany an ode to the skirt steak (bavette)Bavette at Duck Soup in Soho'Sometimes when you taste a red wine it can leave a really...
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The Gilbert Scott: A thoroughly British affair
Evangelists occupy the Gilbert Scott restaurant. This is no place for indifference. The security guard chats for twenty minutes about the wrought iron from Coventry with Olympic fervour next to the...
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Kaosarn, St John's Hill: Guaranteed Good Times
‘Why don’t we go to Kaosarn instead?’ The text from wine-botherer Ruth Ford read a year or so ago when I suggested we visit some upstart of a restaurant in Brixton village. ‘I’ve heard not-great things...
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Christmas Clementine Champagne
I'm feeling festive. The rustle of present wrapping accompanies the camp jazz-hands neon lights on the tree. We're looking forward to the hearty out-of-tune warbling at midnight mass tonight, the...
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Voracious is Square Meal's Food Blogger to Follow in 2013
New Year’s Eve dinner tonight. Our host is cooking venison, and I have been charged with preparing something to amuse the bouches. My first thought was to make my friend Sonia’s bloody Mary cherry...
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New Culinary Tales with New Culinary Presents
Having professed that I don’t make resolutions (read my attempt to give up red meat last January), I am a glutton for punishment and shall make some more. Friends and family have been generous with...
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The big breakfast: what to eat after a snow run
Snowy run in Wandsworth CommonDuring his polar expedition Sir Ranulph Fiennes ate 5,200 calories a day. With this in mind, seeing how snowy it was on Sunday morning, we went on our own expedition...
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A dish a day: Bocca di Lupo’s Rabbit Saltimbocca
The voracious eater on the dish that made her day Every now and then, an evening falls into place. When you can, with half closed eyes, sit back and appreciate how right it feels and let it swim over...
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A Dish a Day: The Rum Kitchen’s Jerk Fried Chicken Thighs
Ramblings from a voracious eater on the dish that made her dayThe jerk chicken garnished with onion ringsThough a lapsed vegetarian’s weakness may be bacon, mine would be steak or fried chicken. And as...
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A Dish a Day: Beef Rendang (for ten)
Ramblings from a voracious eater on the dish that made her dayBeef rendang and green beans with prawns and coconut‘It’s England v France on Saturday, can we host the match?’ he asks. It’s rugby season....
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A Dish a Day: Tom Yum Soup - a Monday night supper
Ramblings from a voracious eater on the dish that made her dayA quick bowl of steaming Tom Yum soupToday, supper is a Thai Tom Yum soup - a warming furnace that sets innards alight; igniting the body...
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A Dish a Day: Slow roasted lamb shoulder on a bed of potatoes
Ramblings from a voracious eater on the dish that made her daySunday lunch on a Tuesday: lamb shoulder and potatoesA Sunday lunch meal for a Tuesday night supper. Not everyone has the luxury of...
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A Dish a Day: Blood Orange Posset
Ramblings from a voracious eater on the dish that made her dayThe blood orange possetOnce a year, around January and February, the sunset colours of blood oranges give us wintry cheer. The oranges that...
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A Dish a Day: Polpetto’s Clams with Wild Garlic
Clams with wild garlic and crème fraicheToday the spotlight is on the clam. Particularly the ones in the newly opened Polpetto in Soho: fiddly to get to and salty to taste, slightly sweet on the chew...
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