Neil Cooks Grigson

Off we went: me, Greg, Joff, Charlotte, Kate and Pete to Newborough in Anglesey, Wales. I’d never been and was looking forward to it; Charl...

Real vanilla ice-cream, a port-spiked plum sauce and a crunchy caramel oat biscuit; this is a dessert to impress. You could, of course, make...

I thought that I’d completely run out of vegetarian recipes until I spotted a whole section in the ‘ Cheese and Egg Dishes’ chapter of Engl...

I made a Madeira cake because it seemed refined – one should drink a glass of Madeira wine with it as one reclines for a mid-morning treat,...

Next up for the picnic – Rolls Filled with Cheese and Tomato Paste . A perfect thing to take out on trips etc., reckons the Grigson ; and sh...

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...