slow-cooked

Slow cooked veal shins are a special treat, not least because of the delicious bone marrow. This is an easy way to cook them. Apart from basting once or twice you can leave this dish to its own devices. Ingredients (serves 2) 1 head of garlic 2 x veal shins (approx. 600g) 4 small red onions...

I’m calling this ‘the Mother Ship’ because apart from being delicious as it is, it forms the basis of so many other recipes. Its as easy as anything to do with virtually no preparation. No peeling required. Its also very economical. I use a 750g piece of gammon which at the time of writing cost...

Here is a retro recipe from 1958. Although it is titled 'Casserole of Octopus', it is in fact a squid recipe as you will see from the recipe text. I pretty well followed it to the letter. It really was surprisingly good. Squid is subtle enough not to eclipse the delicate flavour of asparagus -...