Recent Recipes
Sea beet with duck eggs and new potatoes
Sea beet is similar to spinach, but its glossy, pointed leaves are fleshier and more flavoursome. It can be found growing on the edges of beaches, coast paths and other areas of coastal wasteland. It can be picked and cooked throughout the year. The young leaf...
Cold roast chicken with early new potatoes, baby beetroot, eggs, anchovies and chives
It’s quite unusual to see recipes in which chicken and eggs are paired up together in the same dish, but here, in this vibrant and substantial salad I have done just that. Early new season beetroot and waxy potatoes are tumbled together with salty anchovy; Anc...
Roast chicken with wild garlic
In the winter I like to use fresh earthy thyme and bulb with my roast chicken as they compliment each other beautifully. But in the spring, when the wild garlic is about, it makes for a great alternative.
Black pudding Scotch eggs
Never will I tire of eating black pudding and eggs – together or individually. They are what the French call meilleurs amis. I like to eat these black pudding Scotch eggs with a good mayonnaise, finished with lots of freshly chopped chives. They’re delicious e...
Sea beet and asparagus salad with baby broad beans and radish
This Lovely vibrant salad can be made with young perpetual spinach. Its emerald green, irony leaves work in very much the same way. But if you do live coastally, it's quite easy to find sea beet growing around beaches and tidal estuaries. The young toothsom le...
Lemon and elderflower posset
This is a lovely version of a classic English pudding. The addition of elderflower gives it a heady floral note, which works beautifully with the lemon. I like to garnish this with fresh gooseberries. You can cook them briefly with a little honey perhaps, but...
Trout with pickled cucumber, spelt & herbs
This quick, warm salad of nutty spelt grain and clean river trout always lifts my mood, particularly on a wet, wintry day. With a light air of spring about it, it provides a welcome break from the richer dishes I often prepare over the colder months of the yea...
Roast guinea fowl with black pudding, apple & sage.
I remember my uncle keeping these fine birds when I was a boy, and how their unusual regal quality would grab my fleeting attention as I tore past them in pursuit of my cousin. Now, as a chef I appreciate them all the more. Guinea fowl is delicious and underra...
Venison & bacon stew with orange & bay
At River Cottage I'd always cook venison throughout the winter months. One of my favourite ways to eat it is as a tasty carpaccio. The loin is seared in a hot pan for a few seconds before being sliced and served more or less raw, with flaky salt, lemon juice,...
Christmas ham
I cure a ham each year. It makes lunch on Christmas day all the more satisfying and it’s easy to do. You just have to think a couple of months ahead. I earmark a leg of pork from one of our late-autumn pigs, then towards the end of October, I’ll think about ge...