If you’re addicted to the Lifestyle Food channel you might’ve seen Delia doing her Christmas thing a few weeks ago. I love Delia for her old-school retro cooking, and you know those recipes have been tried and tested since she first started writing cookbooks in the 1970s. They always turn out perfect. Beef Wellington was […]

To ham or not to ham? That is the question. Clearly the answer is yes, and instead of soliloquising I’ve posted my answers to your all-important Christmas ham queries here readers. If you have more please post a comment below and I’ll answer them for you! Should I buy a ham with the bone in […]

I promised that I would post some less-than-traditional Christmas recipes, and so here we are. A middle eastern (surprise!) style of roast lamb. Lamb might not seem the most obvious hero in the festive carnivore banquet, but this version oozes exotic deluxe. It is much smaller, quicker and easier cooking than ham and turkey, and […]

When I’m wanton of a meat fix my favourite indulgence is entrecôte Café de Paris buerre. I absolutely love the sight of my steak oozing its salty medium-rare juices into a pool of melted butter and herbs, which is in turn soaked up by crispy french fries. Because it’s the intermingling butter and meat juices […]

If you’ve never had chakchouka, do yourself a favour and make it. Traditionally vegetarian, chakchouka is a Tunisian dish of tomatoes and capsicum spiced with pimiento and fresh mint, first cooked in a pot then transferred to a baking dish with a few whole eggs that poach in the liquid. All good and well for […]

This is a dish to bring young and old together to indulge in a bit of  immature slurping of spaghetti strings, and splashing of tomato sauce on shirts, white tablecloths, pets, etc. I’ve witnessed grown men and women go loopy about meatballs, singing silly songs about them rolling out of the door. I myself am […]