Neil Cooks Grigson

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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)...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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