Simple but delicious. Poaching the fish in 600 ml of cream (that's two bottles), which is then poured over the fish and pasta, sounds richer than it is. This is partly due to the d...

Smoked mackerel, like elderflower cordial, appears frequently in British cookbooks but is not readily available in this country. I substituted poached smoked cod with a satisfactor...

Dill, bacon and pasta? It works a treat. Results in something like carbonara, but thickened with cream and quite a lot of parmesan instead of eggs. Would be a good substitute dish...

As Nigel says, you don't have to use focaccia so long as you have something to soak up the pan juices. I used polenta. Very tasty although my juniper berries were rather ancient....

As often happens with Nigel Slater, his recipe does not need to be followed slavishly. Thus I used small porterhouse steaks, and frozen spinach (Jamie Oliver has convinced me that...

I do like freekeh, it tastes better than either burghul or brown rice. I cook it in the microwave as if it were brown rice. Used this dish as a side this time, but it would do wel...

Asparagus and blue cheese - who would have thought? Thin asparagus seemed more suitable, and of course I used Charmain Solomon's no-roll pastry, which doesn't need blind baking. V...

Quick and easy, provided you've got fresh shiitake mushrooms and Chinese sausage.

You can have too much cooking lamb shanks in tomato. Using wheat beer makes a change. I ran into trouble with the pan boiling dry - and of course hubby had drunk the left over beer...

The worst part of this was sourcing blackcurrant jam. Thank goodness for Google! It sounds straight forward, but takes a while because there's a lot of turning up the heat and red...