Beef Croquettes

When faced with a considerable amount of leftover Roast Beef, and when you are heartily tired of eating it cold with salad day after day, why not consider using some in that wonderfully old – fashioned way of making croquettes? These should have a wonderfully crisp exterior coating of breadcrumbs,and a soft, savoury but satisfying…

Cooking in Advance

One of the ways we can get our children to housesit for us when we go off for a trip on our boat, is to provide them with vast quantities of food which is ready prepared , needing only minimal cooking or preparation. Faced with rather a surplus of ingredients in the fridge, left over from…

Midweek Supper

Freshly boiled crabs from the South Coast of England, Oysters from Essex, Asparagus from the Garden, Homemade Mayonnaise from our own hens eggs, Homemade Organic Wholemeal Bread, all washed down with a little French number. Life doesn’t get better than this. I only went to West Mersea today to take the cockpit tent to the…

Al Fresco in April

Just now and then the great British Weather comes up trumps. What an impromptu and inexpensive feast in glorious warmth. Simply arrange some Serrano Ham on a platter, along with some Lucques Olives and place on a Provençal tablecloth along with some freshly baked ciabatta style bread which you somehow rustled up in your Aga…