Neil Cooks Grigson

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

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

#199 Apple Sauce III

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Eagle-eyed followers of the blog will notice that there has been no Apple Sauce I or II. In English Food there four recipes for apple sauce,...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Number 200 fast approaches...

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Well who would’ve ever have thunk that I would still be doing this frankly stupid endeavour and be quickly approaching number 200. I have be...
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#198 Compote of Bonchretien Pears

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I’ve been rather busy of late and not had much time for cooking or blogging. Oh well, we all have fallow periods. It seems like ages ago tha...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

#197 Sedgemoor Eel Stew

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The first of four eel-based recipes from the book (five if you include the elvers recipe) and hopefully the star turn for my dinner party . ...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

#196 Mange Tout Salad with Chicken Liver and Bacon

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The starter to the dinner party . The problem with dinner parties is that unless you’re careful, you end up stressed out in the kitchen cook...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

#195 Canapes a la Creme

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The entrĂ©e for the dinner party . It’s one of those recipes that I’ve never got round to because – frankly – it’s never really seemed that i...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

...Next, Simply Prepare Your Eels

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So how do you kill and prepare an eel? Well, if you look in English Food , Griggers just says to ask your fishmonger to do the dirty work. T...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

First, Catch Your Eels...

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There are four eel recipes in English Food: fried eel, jellied eel, eel stew and eel pie. If I’ve any chance of cooking all the recipes in E...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

A Dinner Party

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I had a dinner party at the weekend and invited some folks from work. It’s good to cook for people, though for this one, the guests really w...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

#194 Almond Soup (White Soup)

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Yes, another soup... This recipe is the very first one that appears in English Food. Although it may seem rather odd nowadays, it is one of ...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

#193 Kidney Soup

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Kidney Soup was apparently a kitchen standby in households of times past – particularly in Scotland. Indeed, this recipe is taken from Flore...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

#192 Elizabeth David's Prawn Paste

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In days of yore, we English loved potted meats and fish. You don’t seem to see many potted foodstuffs around these days: though potted beef ...
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October Food

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Here we are in Autumn proper, and although there’s still a decent ‘in season’ list, many of the really summery fruit and veg have started to...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

#191 Lamb with Plums

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It was Butters’ birthday the other week, so naturally I did a bit cooking. He requested lamb as that is his favourite meat. This one is an i...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

#190 Finnan Haddock

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A bit of a cop out this one as it it’s not really a recipe, though it is listed as one in the book. It’s actually more a bit of advice on go...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

#189 Mussel and Leek Rolypoly

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“People sometimes shudder at the mention of roly-poly puddings” says the Grigson; er, no dear, just the idea of THIS one! Why on Earth is th...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

#188 Ragout of Lamb

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Another bargain from Orton Farmers’ market – a nice leg of lamb for a tenner. I love lamb, I do. Griggers actually half-inched this one from...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

#187 Soyer's Clear Vegetable Soup

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I am still trying to count the pennies at the minute and this recipe was designed to be cheap to make as it is from Alexis Soyer’s book Shil...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

#186 Cheese and Oat Biscuits

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To go with the vegetable soup I made yesterday, Old Griggers recommends these cheese and oat biscuits to help pad it out into a main meal. ...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

#185 Vegetable Soup

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In case you didn’t know, ‘Thrifty’ is my middle name. Well ‘Skint’ is, at any rate and I’m ploughing through the cheaper of the recipes. Thi...
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