From the category archives:

Comfort food

Comfort, nursery, invalid, rainy day food to fill you up and lift the spirits. I never tire of this sort of eating – I’ll just say that I can quite happily cook meatballs, soup and lasagna in the summer heat of the Bahamas.

Beef brisket with leeks and orange

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What do you want to do after you’ve just had a freakin’ bitchin’ kite session? (Erm, I don’t actually talk like this normally, but when in Rome…) Eat. Sleep. Repeat. That’s about it… Well, this brisket recipe doesn’t really count as cooking. It took about 15 minutes to put together, then I just stuck it [...]

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Champagne gratin

I’m not really a big drinker these days. Actually, I don’t think I could be called a drinker at all. I’m occasionally tempted to have the odd snifter of wine in the manner of Keith Floyd (one for the pan, a laaaarge one for the cook) but, unlike Floyd, the results on my cooking are [...]

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Pork loin in milk (maiale al latte)

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From our flat in downtown Miami, we can frequently be found on the terrace doing a weather check. Mr. R&R is focused on the kiteboarding conditions, standing hand to brow in full salty sea-dog mode, examining flags and trees for signs of life, checking for white caps and peering off into the distance to see [...]

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Miami meatballs with horseradish and dill

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The single most important commandment for domestic harmony in my house is this: Thou shalt not mess with the meatball. Polpette, and to a lesser degree polpettone, are as close as Mr. R&R gets to religion so it is a brave, some might say foolhardy, woman who disrupts the regular provision of these meatballs, traditionally [...]

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One-pot barley soup for sustenance without stress

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Cooking has been pretty routine of late as we’re waiting for the builders to finish with our new apartment. They’re at that stage which I’m optimistically calling “looks-much-worse-than-it-could-possibly-be”, where there are no floors, doors or lights, five different companies working and about as many languages all being spoken at once. I’m a bit scared to [...]

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Stuffed acorn squash with cranberries, wild rice and walnuts

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I’m afraid that Thanksgiving was rather overshadowed in our house by the excitements of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We got pretty hot and bothered by the new Dyson vacuum cleaner (ticks all my boxes: limited edition, “Apple Mac”-white, extraneous scientific rationale, an accessory for every eventuality) and ignored the founding fathers. But I can’t [...]

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A slapdash cook’s redemption (polpettone, less elegantly known as meatloaf)

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So not all goes to plan in this kitchen, oooh no. Actually that sentence would indicate that I have a plan for supper – most days I’m flipping between at least ten sites open on my increasingly sticky MacBook Air, each with a slightly different version of the recipe I originally had in mind. My cooking [...]

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