From the category archives:

English

Recipes that Mum makes – they’re not all strictly English but they do all include her particular interpretations of David, Grigson, Stewart, Jaffrey and Smith.

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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Cheese and Marmite scones

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I’m still cooking in a practically unequipped temporary kitchen. It’s a bit better than the last one where the dishwasher wasn’t actually attached to anything useful but I’ve only got one mixing bowl and one enormous Pyrex thing that goes in the oven. When the baking urge took hold, there was only one real option: [...]

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Date and oat slice: a kiteboarder-approved, homemade energy bar

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It has proved a lovely, lovely thing to cook some of my childhood favourites for Mr. R&R, and I’ve also (with not a little trepidation) cooked some of his remembered dishes from growing up (see my italian meatloaf, or polpettone). I suppose it’s a way of cementing our two histories together, of saying that yes, [...]

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