Neil Cooks Grigson

During this rubbish weather (God, I am so English – all I do is talk about the weather) there is nothing like a good pie. The Farmers Market...

It seems that the further north you go in England, the more desserts and teatime treats using currants and raisins there are: Eccles cakes a...

Stewed steak is one of the things that remind me of being a kid back home in Pudsey , Leeds. My Mum used to do stewed steak with dumplings s...

Christmas is a-coming! The consumerist nightmare has begun and there’s nothing like it to kill the Christmas spirit. The best way to counter...

There are several recipes in English Food that involve tongue; a bit of the animal now much ignored by most, including me. It’s one of the ...

Jane Grigson describes how to cook and prepare ox tongue in some detail in English Food as well as providing several recipes. Most use pick...

Here is another recipe from Alexis Soyer – the first celebrity chef and all-round (though slightly pompous) good guy. I have mentioned him b...

Eating veal has something of a stigma these days; it is considered cruel by many. In English Food it appears quite often, either in veal rec...

Yes I know it is only the beginning of November, but it is time to seriously think about starting to get some of the Christmas fayre ordered...

This is a recipe for a good game stock – it is a modified version of one that appears in Lindsey Bareham’s very excellent book A Celebration...

One of the good things about my favourite fishmonger, Out of the Blue, is that – like any good fishmonger – they supply game during the seas...

A quickie this one. I wanted to do a recipe from the cured meats section of the book as I haven’t done many of them and I didn’t want to sta...

A good dessert to make if people are round because you can make it a couple of days in advance. The tea in question for this tea cream recip...

As promised, a dish that is more English that roast beef and Yorkshire puddings, at least I think so anyway. It may be because I’m a Norther...

Well #200 was now upon me, so I got a few folks round to join me in scoffing it. The trouble was I couldn’t do starter from the book – other...

Well here we are in November, would you believe. When did this happen? I still keep thinking that 2009 happened recently, and now it is near...

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,...

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...

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...

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 . ...