I often need to have a good long think before setting out on a new blog post. Is it to be about a new dish I’ve cooked, a new piece of kit or a party we’ve held? Mostly, they seem to end up being a bit of a combination of all three, but there isContinue reading “Porchetta”
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Fun with a Flambadou
A what? A flambadou is used to melt fats or butter over whatever it is you are preparing to add flavour and to add a last-minute scorch of heat to finish off the cooking. It consists of a metal cone with the wide opening at the top and a much smaller hole at the bottomContinue reading “Fun with a Flambadou”
A word on time (not the Stephen Hawking kind)
I noticed with a degree of horror today that is now 6 months or so since my last post here. I’ve wracked my brains and cannot really come up with any particular reason for the hiatus other than sometimes real life gets in the way. In this case my professional life has been pretty all-consumingContinue reading “A word on time (not the Stephen Hawking kind)”
The Fire Cage
The Fire Cage Polly and I went backpacking around Argentina 20 years ago. It was a transformative experience for me in many ways, not least in the pure joy to be had in going to a restaurant where the menu only consisted of about 10 courses of meat. You name it. Bif de Chorizo, BifContinue reading “The Fire Cage”
Fish Friday
Happy new year! Friday night is usually a fairly low-key night in for us, but the week before Christmas Polly invited a couple of mates round and ordered a box of delights from Pesky Fish. If you’ve not come across them, they are a business which aims to cut out the middle man between theContinue reading “Fish Friday”
Looftlighter Chicken
A lot has happened recently which is why this is my first post for a couple of months. Splendidly, a lot of what has been happening relates to being back at work in a (relatively) COVID-restriction free environment which has been great. From a Live Fire Journal point of view, it has been less goodContinue reading “Looftlighter Chicken”
Late-night dirty fries
This is the kind of dish that people NEED after a long day. Now whether you have spent your day watching England v India at the test cricket, or on a great long walk around Cornwall, or, as we did, in our mates’ garden doing a kind of mini festival there comes a point whereContinue reading “Late-night dirty fries”
Getting started on your Live Fire journey
Last month it was my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. We had a family get-together in their beautiful garden; my brother supplied the booze and Polly and I did the catering. It was great fun and, even if I say so myself, the food turned out brilliantly. As I was cooking, I got a couple ofContinue reading “Getting started on your Live Fire journey”
The Aldi Mini Kamado
Now there is no doubt that this was a bit of an extravagant buy. We have a Big Green Egg, so why get another Kamado? For us, there were a couple of reasons actually. Primarily, we wanted something that was more portable. Our BGE is the small size, but that weighs in at about 60KGContinue reading “The Aldi Mini Kamado”
The Tomahawk steak train
Choo Choo! All aboard the steak train! I’ve finally got round to tomahawk steak, a phenomenon that has existed for the last couple of summers, fueled by some pretty hardcore marketing by supermarkets and online butchers. They look good don’t they? As I understand it, a tomahawk steak is basically a big rib-eye, with theContinue reading “The Tomahawk steak train”
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