To make 6 or so jars of marmalade use about 6 seville oranges. Quarter the fruit, remove pips and reserve them. Slice the fruit, I like big rough cut pieces of peel in my marmalade but this is a matter of preference and you may like a fine cut finish. Weigh the sliced fruit, to […]
Apart from brief glimpses of sunshine with sub-zero temperatures, November has been cold, winter has officially arrived. We need food to sustain and tempt us but comfort food does not have to be heavy and dull. It should contain a range of subtle flavours but plenty of carbohydrates to keep us going. Seeking inspiration, I […]
Potato & Rosemary Gnocchi INGREDIENTS serves 4 1 tbs rosemary, finely chopped 500g starchy potatoes (Duke of York, Romano or King Edward) 100g plain flour 75g fontina cheese or 1 mozzarella, roughly chopped salt and black pepper METHOD Place the potatoes in a large plan, cover with water and boil in their skins. Sieve the […]
Hi Fish Lovers Take a look at the menu for our next Fish Friday Supper in our beautiful professional kitchen in Kings Mews Hove…. hurry and book your place now £32 for a four course fish supper including a welcome drink Smoked paprika and pollok croquetas – green onion aioli Home cured beetroot gravad lax […]
Since the beginning of time people have seen ‘the dinner party’ as a means of making social connection and impressing their friends. Perhaps this is why those three little words sound so intriguing and have formed the basis of many a good situation comedy. Countless dramatic set-pieces have also been played out around the dinner […]
INGREDIENTS serves 4 4 fillets of salmon weighing about 100-125g each 4 tbsp of light soy sauce 1 tsp rice wine vinegar 1 clove garlic, crushed 250g puy lentils 1pt/half a litre of chicken stock 2 tbs light olive oil 1 med onion, finely chopped 2 small red chillies, de-seeded and chopped fine salt + […]
Join us as we open our doors for a unique culinary experience held at Plum’s garage kitchen in one of Hove’s last remaining working Mews. Originally a coach house, now a professional commercial kitchen where we will be hosting our Fish Friday Supper Club. Starting February, the pop up will be held every last Friday […]
Squash are one of the most dynamic seasonal vegetables in Britain. Being the holidays, they contribute to a huge range of varieties, colours and sizes and yet we do little more than make pumpkin soup. Despite the fact they are easy to grow, we mostly seem to produce the ubiquitous orange-skinned pumpkin but there are […]
When Delia Smith, the headmistress of British cooking dared to tell us how to boil an egg, we all felt rather insulted, not unlike Nigella Lawson returning to British television screens in November 2015 with a new series called Simply Nigella starring Lawson’s infamous ‘Avocado Toast’ in the first episode. Fellow celebrity chef Gary Rhodes took […]
Aubergines are still in season, which means they are cheap to buy and at their best. When buying aubergines you should look for an unblemished skin and a bright green calyx (the stalk), this will ensure flavour and freshness. Aubergines have often mistakenly been considered bland or even bitter but this would have been the […]