Cookbook Confidential

Serves 4   A Cretan salad is in fact very similar to the well-known Greek salad, but has goat’s curd instead of feta as well as broken Cretan barley rusks. Sometimes you may also find […]

The combination of mushrooms and cashew nuts might sound unusual but I promise this could easily become your favourite veg curry. Gram flour slightly thickens the mixture while also adding flavour. Enjoy with rice, chapatti […]

Swede is scrumptious roasted whole, however, coating it with sugar and mustard makes it irresistible, tipping the level of satisfaction to the extreme. This dish makes a great centrepiece for any table and is perfect […]

My sobriety is obviously extremely important to me and I am extremely proud of it. But I would be telling porky pies if I said there weren’t elements of my old life that I miss. […]

Imagine how easy dinner could be if you mixed – right on a chopping board – a handful of raw ingredients that play well together and then dragged your steaks through that spontaneous ‘sauce’. Feel […]

Ah, the antipasti platter – grazie mille, Italia! This is probably the perfect way to eat while you’re drinking and ideal for a party. A little bit of ham, a little bit of cheese, olives, […]

We Parsees are not known for our vegetarian dishes. Eggs, yes. Vegetables, no! I know many that will not even touch a green pea and in many cases we destroy  the very element of a vegetable by […]

Although it doesn’t fit with the three-ingredient drinks in this book, our favourite Negroni is the Sloe Negroni, made with 4 equal measures: Sipsmith Sloe Gin, Sipsmith London Dry Gin, Campari and sweet vermouth. Countless […]

This really is a dreamy dessert – sweet, creamy and meltingly unctuous, and the pristine white surface makes the perfect canvas for artistic decoration. The panna cotta can, of course, be made without the encasing […]

This came about after I cooked a Greek dish that had a stuffing made from a Greek cheese (not unlike pecorino) and ground allspice. I’d never thought about a cheese stuffing for lamb before. So […]

Mum was Catholic and Dad wasn’t, and there was no way he was going to let his children be raised in the Catholic Church. But we were allowed to be Protestants, so the United Reformed […]

SERVES 4 3 courgettes, sliced into thick rounds 650g potatoes, peeled and cut into 1cm-thick slices 5 tablespoons good-quality olive oil 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 2 × 400g tins plum tomatoes 1 teaspoon dried […]