Keep It Simple: A Fresh Look at Classic Cooking

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The recipe makes 6-8 portions, but it’s a good-tempered dish so take what you need and eat the rest cold or warmed through the next day. Most of the prep can, in fact needs, to be done in advance making it ideal for dîner à deux when you don’t want to be spending hours in the kitchen. Paula explicity asked me for my thoughts on having attended the book event and heard Owusu discuss it in person. The truffle oil in the dressing is appropriate for Valentine’s Day as truffles are known for their aphrodisiac qualities.

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Lee led the tributes from the London food world this week: “Alastair Little was a godfather of modern British cooking and a champion of keeping it simple.

So although this was more of a bereavement memoir than I expected and might be difficult to read if you’re losing someone (or comforting, as she finds her way through) there was a lot of value in it for me. Aboriginal and other Indigenous languages and their role in the countries that include Indigenous communities are also included in this chapter; I appreciated the wide range of the book in this respect.Laid out like biblical commentary, we have his reactions and comments in the margins, sort-of explaining translations from the Twi language, interacting with the text, still in a fictional form. The text contains many many side notes, some of which are revealing, and others of which were just as opaque as the main body of the text. I always associate Little with his eponymous restaurant that sprung up in Frith Street, Soho, in the mid-Eighties. A classic taste of late summer, this is one of the few dishes that uses sliced white bread to advantage.

Olney was one of the guests, and I later heard that when the waiter poured him a glass of red wine, he sipped it and sent it back. You need to keep the fruit beneath the surface of the liquid and the easiest way to achieve this is to use a lid from a smaller pan to hold it down.It’s important for runners to do strength training especially as we get older, to prevent injury and help us to stay strong. The tart is characterised by the use of halved apples baked in caramel with the pastry lid becoming the base when the cooked tart is inverted to be served still warm.

Sorbets are so easy to make with a sorbetiere or ice-cream maker that many people fail to do so, as if ease of execution is synonymous with cheating in the kitchen. Serving: Serve with Sauternes and Olive Oil Cake (see page 61), or with some creme frache or vanilla ice-cream.In my mind's eye I can still see those huge metal tins with their cement-like topping, with superheated and overcooked fruit forcing its way through cracks like lava from a volcano. I would be much happier if there was something, even a single sentence at the very end of the book, that confirmed that his mum had indeed given full consent for her story to be told in this way.