simple food, looking good

True, it doesn't look spectacular, but what a nice mix of flavours to eat, believe me. Preheat oven to 220°C Place 10 fat  carrots on a...

Mix 45g butter (room temperature), 20g finely cut anchovies , 1/2 finely cut shallot , 4 pressed cloves of garlic , 2 tbsp hacked parsley ,...

Making dulce de leche is simple: put an unopened tin of condensed milk in a pan and cover with water . Bring to the boil and keep boiling ...

Start 2 days in advance making pickled red onion and cucumber. Peel and quarter 3 small red onions . Halve 1/2 cucumber  lengthwise, deseed...

Carefully open a (120g) can of sardines . Drain the sardines well and remove the bones. Put the meat in the chopper attachment of your stick...

Yes, it is not an award winning picture of an amazing looking dish. The kitchen from Umbria is called cucina povera (poor kitchen) but the s...

Pre-heat the oven at 200°C.  Peel 2 ripe tomatoes and 1/2 red paprika. Halve the tomatoes and put them in a roasting tin with the paprika, ...

Melt 75g butter , crush 220g Bastogne biscuits  and mix the crumbles with the butter.  Cover the bottom of a 17x 27 cm baking tin with bakin...

Slice 1 big aubergine in 2 cm cubes, sprinkle with sa l t and rest voor 10 mins. Rinse and dry, then panfry in 3 tbsp olive oil for about 1...

Peel 2 thick asparagus , boil them 5 mins in salted water, shut off the heat and leave them, under a lid, another 6 mins Mix 1/2 tbsp Thai r...

Defrost 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream and mix with 1 tbsp whipped double cream , 1 egg yolk and 1 tsp Amaretto Divide over 4 plates and add...

For starters fill a pan with 5 cm cold water and add the juice of 1/2 lemon , then trim down 2 big fresh artichokes down to their meaty hear...

The original recipe was for haddock but that was not available so I asked my  fishmonger to cut two 6cm fillets from 1/2 whiting and took t...

Hack 1/2 green chili and finely slice 1/2 shallot . Softly boil them in 125 ml langoustine stock , then add 75g cold butter and use the sti...

Hack 1/2 tbsp pistachios , 1/2 green chili and 1 tbsp coriander leaves finely, Mix well and ad the zest and juice from 1/2 lime . Season ...

Season a 250g fillet of lamb with salt and pepper and panfry in about 4 mins in butter. Then roll in alufoil and rest for 15 mins For the...

Use scissors to open the leg of a pre-boiled King crab lengthwise, take out the meat and cut into 2 cm pieces Cover them first with flour ,...

Take 2 pre-boiled legs of King crab and use scissors to cut them open to remove the meat. Cut in 2 cm pieces and dry them on a plate betwee...

Cut 400g chicken thighs into 1 cm strips, place in a medium bowl with 4 tbsp sake and toss to coat. Stand for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, cook 1...

Mince 1/2 onion and 1 clove of garlic , cut 1/2 Romano pepper (long paprika) into strips. Sweat the onion and garlic 2 mins in 1 tbsp oliv...