Neil Cooks Grigson

When we all thought about going out for the day picnicking, the first thing I thought of making was a Cornish pasty; easy to make and easy ...

Off me and Greg went along with Joff to see Sarah, Jono and the Georgeling, plus Ben and Katy in Barnton . The idea being that Jono, Joff an...

The third and final soup I made for my recovery. I love the peppery taste of watercress and certainly don’t eat it enough. I thought that wa...

This one is very similar to the tomato soup I made last month, and has almost the same ingredients. I used beef stock rather than vegetable ...

This one’s a cracker. It’s basically pea and ham soup as it uses ham stock. Grigson gives the option of using chicken stock, and I suppose y...

By ecstasy, I actually mean agony. I have returned from the hell that is multiple wisdom tooth extraction. I have been doing some Grigsons b...

This morning I am off for my wisdom teeth out. I haven’t quite managed to make the shed-load of ice-cream that I’d planned to. I am trying t...

I made these shortcakes to go with the Mangoes of the Sun dish, but make them any time you want. Greg, Lee and I polished the remaining one...

I need to catch up on the old recipes… At the weekend Lee came over – I’m glad to see that he’s enthused by the whole Grigson thing – so I m...

All is going well thus far re: fitness. I’ ve been to the gym every morning so far this week and I’m determined not to eat to much fatty gr...

I can see you there, judging me. I my have piled on the pounds but it's my glands, you see, my glands. There's nothing I can do. It ...

The third bit of stodge I made for the little gathering at mine for my birthday. Tea loaves are great and very Yorkshire, but I’d not made o...

Seed cake, it seems, goes way way way back. Jane mentions books from the 1700 with several recipes. A classic English cake if ever there was...

Melons are on tip-top form in late Spring and early Summer so I thought I’d better do the only (I think) melon-related recipe in the book. I...

It’s my birthday today. Thirty-one years old. I don’t worry about age and all that nonsense these days – I got over that one on my 28th. I f...

I still haven’t make anything since I got back, however I did do (#60) Tomato Soup before I left for France. I think it’s important to use ...

Sorry for not adding an entry for a while… I got back from the beautiful St Auban last Saturday evening and haven’t quite got back into my r...

Well, I'm going to sign off now for a couple of weeks; off to France on a field course with the University of Manchester. It means, of c...

Since as there’s about a million different bread recipes in this Goddam book, I thought I’d better have a crack at some bread-making; I’m al...

Other than asparagus, the fruit and veg stall had some lovely ripe apricots, at only a quid for 6. So It thought I had to make use of them. ...