June 2007 Archive

I was cooking a large meal for friends the other day. I fancied roasting some beef, and fortuitously, a leg of beef was half price in the supermarket.
As I have grown older, I have liked my beef rarer and rarer. I now prefer rare or medium rare beef, as I think it is more juicy, […]

This dish combines sweet and savoury flavours in a main meal. I normally don’t like to combine sweet and meat, especially orange meat sauces which usually end up sickly sweet, sticky and the sour orange flavour is totally opposed to the juicy meat flavour. Apple based sweetness usually compliments the flavour of the meat much […]