Neil Cooks Grigson

The second part of the traditional festivities: a home-made Christmas Pudding. Don’t know why I’m making it as it seems the whole world desp...

Christmas is coming, and I am going traditional on your ass. First thing to be made is Mrs Beeton’s Traditional Mincemeat. According to Grig...

We all went up to Cumbria to visit Frances and James last weekend. It was also Dean’s birthday, so I thought I’d make a cake. On asking him ...

I wanted to do a quick and easy dessert for when Paddy came round and didn’t really have time for baking or anything requiring too much time...

The second of the classics I’m trying to work through. Spoilt for choice for the next one. Thinking maybe a Lancashire Hotpot. Any suggestio...

The almond finger. A Mr Kipling favourite I think. I recently decided, since there is no such thing as a bad cake, that if I am to avoid a s...

Very sorry for the recent few weeks being blog-lite. However folks, this doesn’t mean I’ve not been cooking, just been rather busy with work...

Another venture into yeast cookery. This one uses fresh yeast; a new one on me. It’s much better than the dried stuff. Also, I have a giant ...

My favourite soup; at least when it comes to tinned Heinz variety. I have made it before, but it was quite an elaborate recipe with loads of...

Right. I promise that October shall be much more eventful in the world of The Grigson than September. It was my turn to do the cake for Evol...

Just having a little look at the blog and realised I missed the 1st anniversary of Neil Cooks Grigson ! What a complete pillock!! Looking ba...

I was “working from home” the other day and therefore needed to procrastinate heavily; been making a poster for the Faculty of Life Science ...

Well, well, well, it HAS been a while hasn’t it!? I cannot apologise enough readers, but I have had what can only be described as ‘personal ...

Semolina pudding is probably what most people think of when looking back at the school dinners they detested. I don’t know why people hate i...

If you are on a budget, this dish is certainly for you - it contains, basically, onions, potatoes, butter, salt and pepper. There are variat...

Now that it is late summer many English orchard fruits are at their best. This recipe uses pears, and it’s very important to use good ripe o...

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,...