Chorizo, potato, courgette and goat’s cheese frittata (or egg pizza for the kids)

You can’t kid a kidder. That’s what we always say to our eldest daughter when she tries telling us a little fib. So much so that she’s developed a keen ability to sniff out the slightest porky. And so it is with frittata, which, in a vain attempt to get the kids to eat it,…

Is there anything better than… Proper Carbonara

This is another reason why I love Italian food. This is so simple yet the results so fabuous; a dish greater than the sum of its parts. It’s one of those dishes you want to keep eating. Not because it’s exquisite technical cooking but because it’s comforting and delicious. And what’s ‘proper’ about it you…

How to boil an egg – and other culinary egg fibs.

I thought I knew the egg, I though I knew how to boil it. All my life I’ve been doing it one way – bring to the boil then simmer for 2-3 mins. Never any complaints always the same result, runny yoke, firm white. But it seems there are alternative ways of doing it. Recently…