Techniques – Page 2 – Live Fire Journal

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”

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”

Braised Fennel

OK, I know. This is a bit of a cheat in that this is cooked on the hob and not over what one might strictly term live fire. In my head it can be argued that all fire is live to some extent and just because I’m using gas and not charcoal doesn’t make thisContinue reading “Braised Fennel”