Cooking fish and seafood is fraught with problems: it’s expensive, it’s too easy to overcook, and it’s too easy to swamp it with flavours. Here we present a simple way of cooking beautiful fish. It could be served very simply with some lemon wedges or with some parsley or garlic butter. Or it could be served with your favourite sauce. …
Tomato Sauce – Italian Style
(Continued from Pesto, Salsa Verde, Chimichurri) As well as an abundance of herbs, at this time of the year you may well have an abundance of tomatoes. Or at least they will be cheap to buy, and at their flavoursome best. Home-grown tomatoes: Shouldn’t they taste better? I have grown tomatoes in the past and I have no hesitation in …
Pesto, Salsa Verde, Chimichurri – Three essential green sauces
(Continued from Our Herb Garden) In this post I am writing about herbs that could be classified as ‘soft herbs’, meaning leafy, salad-like herbs as distinct from the more pungent ‘hard leaf’ herbs like thyme, rosemary and bay leaves. Just now, in the second half of February, we have plenty of these in the garden. We have too much to …
Kaffir in the Limelight
If you have the space in your garden or on your balcony, consider obtaining a kaffir lime tree for both looks and flavours. We have had one surviving quite happily in a large planter pot for about ten years. It hasn’t ever grown actual fruit, but we use the leaves frequently, picking them almost as often as we pick leaves …