Neil Cooks Grigson

Neil attempts to cook the whole of Jane Grigson's 'English Food', and adds his own recipes on the way...

Friday, July 31, 2009

#174 Grasmere Gingerbread I

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Gingerbread is of course, not bread but a biscuit. According to Griggers, the biscuity gingerbread that we know and love, and (I assume we u...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

#173 Summer Pudding

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The quintessential English pudding for, er, summertime. The summer pudding is one of my favourite desserts; I’d never made one before, but h...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

#172 Cucumber Ragout

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I chose this unusual recipe as the accompaniment to roast chicken – Griggers really bigs this “delicious” and “piquant” dish up and suggests...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

#171 Herb Stuffing

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I have been trying to address an FAQ recently: “how far through the book are you?” I have been a right old geek and calculated it on a sprea...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

#170 English Salad Sauce

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English salad sauce was used as a cheaper alternative to mayonnaise and other similar posh or tricky to make dressings. Nothing to be ashame...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

#169 Salmon Fishcakes

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Now that I have decided that smoked salmon is not the work of Satan, I thought that I’d have a crack at some more salmon recipes. This is a ...
Monday, July 20, 2009

#168 Smoked Fish Souffle

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This one is just a quickie: With the bit of smoked trout Butters and me had left over from our trip to the Cheshire Smokehouse, rather than ...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

#167 Brown Bread Ice Cream

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Aside from all the smoked stuff we bought at the Cheshire Smokehouse, we also got ourselves some nice desserts (and VERY nice they were too)...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

#166 Smoked Salmon

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Butters and I went to the Cheshire Smokehouse at the weekend and bought lots of good things: smoked nuts, smoked trout, bacon and – amongst ...
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Friday, July 10, 2009

#165 Indian Soup

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A soup “with a lively freshness and a spicy flavour” says Jane, just the ticket for a summer soup, it is also a thrifty soup as it requires ...
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Bonjour!

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Well, I am back from the French field trip and full of meat, meat, meat! That is mainly what I’ve been eating for the last two weeks; well, ...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

July food

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Probably the most exciting food month - all my favorite fruits are here in abundance. It's also my birthday this month so I expect many ...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Au Revior!

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See you later chaps and chapesses – I’m off to France for 2 weeks today on a field trip to St Auban, just a wee bit north of Nice in the Sou...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

#164 Sorrel with Eggs

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It’s always exciting trying a new food, and this one – sorrel – is completely new to me, even though it is a common part of many a British m...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

#163 Wild Apricot Fool or Ice Cream

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Seeing as we’d had a very un-summery meal of beef and dumplings, I thought I’d better do something nice and cool and refreshing for pudding....
Sunday, June 14, 2009

#162 Horseradish Sauce

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To accompany the salt beef, I made this classic accompaniment, though it goes very well with smoked fish such as trout. It’s very easy to ma...

#161 Boiled Salt Beef and Dumplings

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After the reasonable success of the ham I cured, I was keen to try something else so I went for salt beef. You can of course just buy your b...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

#160 Rice Cake

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Every Wednesday at work, one of us tries to make a cake and bring it in so we can all get together for a chat; something we rarely get to do...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

#159 Creamed Roe Loaves

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Here at Grigson Towers, we don’t like to let anything go to waste, and our tasty fishes are certainly something that should be at treated wi...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

#158 Gooseberry Stuffing for Mackerel

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Apart from Britain and the Netherlands, gooseberries are not grown and eaten in large numbers. This is because they’re not a particularly po...
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