Lettice and I went to the market this morning. I found damsons and Kent cobnuts; Lettice found mussels. We ate them for lunch - quick, easy,...

Yesterday, Tessa and I went to the mussel farm at Loch Spelve to buy a big bag of moules for supper. I'd never been to one before, so w...

Guest post from daughter Lettice , who cooked dinner for the two of us this evening. She's just back from three months volunteering in S...

It's funny, one day there's five inches of snow and only the spears of a few snowdrops, the next day most of the snow has gone and t...

I say Suzie's because she made these delicious pancakes on New Year's Eve - a steady stream of them came out of the kitchen, loaded ...

How about this? The complete menu, with recipes, for yesterday's inaugural lunch. I'm slightly appalled at the "winter vegetabl...

This is seriously good, seriously unphotogenic, a wonderful winter alternative to salsa verde . We've eaten it every night this week. It...

Here's a quick tip for sprucing up fish or chicken cooked in egg and breadcrumbs/flour. Add a few poppy seeds and some sunflower seeds t...

These Venetian marinated sardines have been on my must-cook list since I read Patience Gray's Honey from a Weed . They're that swee...

One of the most visited pages on this blog is my recipe for pasta con le sarde made with tinned sardines. Yesterday, I had the chance to bu...

I've been trying to have at least one completely vegetarian day a week here. This is easier when Horatio is away at uni, and very hard w...

Spent the day at the Oxford and Cambridge varsity hockey matches, as Lettice's team was playing the warm-up game. It was the last game f...

If we were having an 80s or 90s moment, this could be a warm salad, but now, in the 21st century, I served this hot hot hot straight from th...

Cooking with decent ingredients means that you don't want to waste them, however lowly they may seem to be. Something that has crept up ...

This delicious smokily-spiced fish and potato dish would be just as good without the fish, in fact, next time, I think that's how I'...

I haven't tried this recipe yet, but I intend to. I copied it out of Anna's copy ofHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Fish on Boxing...

We eat kippers for breakfast every Saturday morning, without stinking out the house, which it seems is a major factor in putting people off ...

I said I'd cook one last recipe from each book I give away ... today's prize book is Jane Grigson's Fish Book. I'm only giv...

The other day, in the post-Christmas sales, I bought yet another recipe book. When I got home, I realised there really really wasn't any...

Lettice and I were on our own for lunch - Lucius was playing in a real tennis tournament, the boys ate early before rushing off to play hock...