We are days away from a glorious, four-day long bank holiday and how else would you want to spend it than in your kitchen baking things? I mean, realistically, the sun isn’t going to shine, so you may as well get the flour, sugar and butter in [...]
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Slow cooked shepherd’s pie photographed by Stuart Ovenden
The dark arts of food styling are much whispered about. It’s often assumed that magazines deploy most of B&Q to get their meals looking as scrumptious as they do. The chicken is varnished, the lasagne is blow-torched and the steam [...]
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Granola with poached forced rhubarb
Last Sunday I had people round for brunch. It’s a modern, trendy thing to do. I think. Keeping
up with the kids is quite hard these days, especially since my bad back manifested itself and I went
a bit deaf.
Anyway, I have [...]
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Poor beetroot. It does all it can to make itself loveable. It comes in a variety of pretty pinks and purples, it’s full of all those vitamins and minerals we know we should eat more of, and it’s amenable to being eaten raw, cooked or however you [...]
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I bloody love soup. I worried that starting off my new blog with a post about soup might be a bit boring. Who gets excited about soup? I don’t, and soup is one of my favourite things. Meat, vegetable, fish, [...]
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I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but some food bloggers are very keen on burgers. Very keen indeed. So when they have a birthday, there is only one possible cake that can be baked for them: a burger cake.
Originally I’d planned on doing a giant burger [...]
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Australian chef Greg Malouf’s new cookbook Malouf, written with his ex-wife and food writer Lucy, was delivered to my office by a courier who must’ve cursed the day that the Maloufs decided to put together a really comprehensive collection of their favourite Middle Eastern [...]
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Hello Magazine isn’t usually my first stop for recipes, especially for something as rustic and proletarian as pickled onions. But, having decided that my house would benefit enormously from smelling like a used chip wrapper for a few days, I idly googled ‘pickled onions’ and this recipe for [...]
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The 24th–30th October is Avocado Week. It’s the week when shadowy organisation the Avocado Brotherhood tiptoes through the British Isles whispering: “Why not have an avocado? In particular, a Hass avocado grown in Chile”, into the ears of the populace. If you’ve woken up with an inexplicable desire for [...]
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After eating all the Welsh cakes in Cardiff at the Visit Wales lunch, I returned to London with a new griddlecake obsession. How could I not develop a long and loving fascination with something that tastes like a magic mix of pancake, biscuit and fried [...]
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My name is Jassy Davis and I'm a freelance food writer, recipe developer and food stylist. I write for magazines, websites and I'm the co-author of The Contented Calf Cookbook.
You can contact me at gindrinkers@gmail.com
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