The beauty of cooking a humble ingredient such as chicken is that it’s used in pretty much all cuisines. I have prepared chicken with 40 cloves of garlic many times, it’s a French classic. The other I picked up from a chef I had the opportunity to work with from Mougins, some years ago, vinegar…
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Healthy Green Vegetable Frittata
The festive season is firmly behind us, my sons have returned to their homes and I have been left with some, (not much) leftovers in my fridge. I don’t know about you but I hate to throw any food away, I have to do something with the odds and ends in my fridge. I catered…
Thai Spiced Chicken Soup
Chicken soup is often a staple when you’re fighting a cold or flu but did you know that homemade chicken soup actually has health benefits too? Cuddling up with a bowl of hot chicken soup is the best cure for colds in the winter months, according to researchers. A study found that chicken soup could…
Laxpudding (Swedish Salmon & Potato Pudding)
When Hugh Collins from Chilterns Food Magazine approached me to ask if I’d like to contribute to the summer issue in their ‘Season Spectacular’ feature, I jumped at the chance. I love this publication, it’s teaming with information about local producers, chefs, restaurants and pubs. Naturally my feature is about Scandinavian food, in fact Swedish, if…
Dashi Braised Cod, Spring Vegetables, Wild Garlic Emulsion & Wild Garlic Oil with Yuzu
This vibrant fish dish is a celebration of Spring, combining succulent cod with tender leeks and asparagus with a vibrant wild garlic emulsion and a wild garlic dressing made with yuzu. Yuzu, with its unique citrus flavour and strong fragrance, the juice, rind and peel of this fruit makes an excellent addition to sauces, seafood…
Swedish Fish Soup with Saffron Rouille
If ever you find yourself in Stockholm at the Food-hall (Saluhall) at lunchtime you will do well to join the local shoppers and office workers in a bowl of fish soup. Swedes like to eat lunch early, we’re talking midday or even earlier! You’ll find yourself sitting at a table where you will be jostled…
Venison à la Lindström with Spiced Celeriac Remoulade
January feels like we’re lumbering through the grey and the cold that forces its way through our clothes and into our bones. I need comfort at this time of year and it had occurred to me whilst sitting in my kitchen flicking through my recipe notebook that I hadn’t made this Swedish classic for some time. ‘Biff à la Lindström’ Beetroot,…
Slow Cooked Pigs Cheeks
Each year, the plunge into winter makes me grateful for a well-stocked larder and freezer, it makes it easy to create a repast even when it’s too cold to go outside and stock up on this-or-that. This is a wonderful prepare ahead dish, requires a little effort but well worth it. It’s comfort food at its best, a casserole with deliciously tender…
Venison Casserole with Pickled Chanterelles
In the north, they have the advantage of being able to indulge in a lot of game during the autumn. Approximately 300,000 Swedes have hunting licenses. In total, they contribute 20,000 tonnes of wild game to the Swedish table every year. As only a certain number of animals can be killed each year thanks to decades of…
Hot Smoked Salmon
I was first introduced to hot smoked fish when I was a child. My family stayed with relatives in the Stockholm archipelago, we would lay fishing nets out in the early evening and hope for a bountiful catch, the excitement when we woke the next morning. The smoked fish I ate in the years after those days…
