What requires bread making skills but looks like a tarte?
And more to the point, what would marry Paul’s passion for bread with Mary’s excitement for lovely looking cakes…? Continue reading
Category Archives: recipes – savoury
Nigel Slater’s duck with glazed apples and mange tout
Duck is such a tasty dish, but if it should ever go wrong… Continue reading
Liver and onions / fegatini di pollo alla veneziana
Hmm… getting in touch with their inner buffoon, more like – but don’t be fooled: those two clowns are less likely to be moved by the flood of their emotions than the rumble of their stomachs… Continue reading
Thai prawns with coconut and pineapple
Savouring the last of the summer sunshine, Fidget was recently seen sampling some exotic cocktail concoctions… Continue reading
Pasta alla Norma the Fidget way
This is a traditional Sicilian dish but Fidget decided to give it a personal twist in a north-meets-south kinda way. And, yes, you may be forgiven for thinking he was presenting the weather forecast… Continue reading
Pork medallions with mustard crust and mash
This summer the weather’s been hit and miss, to say the least – and certainly not wall-to-wall scorchio – so Trota thought she’d trot out some mid-season comfort food… and having heard the word ‘medallion’ mentioned in the cartoon kitchen, Fidget decided to get right into the groove… Continue reading
Monkfish with chorizo and sundried tomatoes
Sometimes it’s almost surreal what happens in the cartoon kitchen! Even the abbot got involved… Continue reading
Sea bream with fennel salad and orange pearls
Inspired by a Jason Atherton recipe, Trota pulled out all the stops and planned the day well in advance. So – with Salmon gone fishing and Fidget watching Crufts re-runs – Trota, fully self-expressed, had the cartoon kitchen all to herself. Joy! Continue reading
Fish parcels with new potatoes / Pesce al cartoccio con patate novelle
What did Trota expect when she instructed Fidget to put the ingredients for this recipe in baking paper and “make a parcel” with it? Well, in the cartoon kitchen you should never assume, and here’s the proof: Fidget turned up with all the ingredients, true – but beautifully wrapped up in brown paper, neatly tied and stamped, wax seals and all… Continue reading
Moroccan aubergine meatballs with rice
Fidget with the polpette-making instrument, Salmon with the measure and theorem. Perfect spheres: Trota despairs – she just said they had to be more or less the same size; it didn’t need an exercise in geometry… Continue reading
Chez Rowe 