Food & Travel Salad Days: Garlicky roasted baby potato salad February 18, 2026 Daddy Look, it’s the new year. Ring the changes. In with the new. Clean slates all round. Even if nobody has any money. Well, nobody I know at any rate. Even…
Food & Travel Chicken roasted with parsnips, carrots and thyme February 18, 2026 Daddy Who loves parsnips? Anyone? And why is this magnificent root vegetable so overlooked? The same vegetable shelves that boast mounds of carrots rarely give much space or time to the…
Food & Travel AirFryday: Pork belly and crackling with fennel, apple and mustard February 18, 2026 Daddy When my big 25-litre air fryer oven landed in my kitchen, I knew it wouldn’t be long before I put a hefty slab of pork belly in it to see…
Food & Travel Pork loin fillets on a bed of sage and onion February 18, 2026 Daddy My son-in-law’s green fingers are turning me the same colour. How does he manage to get sage to grow so prolifically, when mine flourish for 10 days, then glare at…
Food & Travel Salad Days: Celery! Apples! Walnuts! Grapes! Yes, it’s a Waldorf Salad February 17, 2026 Daddy Harry Hamilton, the angry American man in the Waldorf Salad episode of the Fawlty Towers sitcom, was never going to be pleased. With hindsight, he was a ghastly boor of…
Food & Travel Pork rump steaks with chorizo and olives February 17, 2026 Daddy Pork steaks were never a thing until quite recently, certainly not readily available and pre-cut and labelled in the butchery sections of our supermarkets. But there they are, so what…
Food & Travel Braaied picanha steaks with soy, lime, garlic and cumin February 17, 2026 Daddy Picanha. Made for fast cooking. Tender at first bite. Ideal for a rare finish, yet given to a delicious crust where the flames have touched it. It’s the perfect steak,…
Food & Travel AirFryday: Test-driving a frozen cottage pie February 17, 2026 Daddy Sometimes we’re rushed and take the easy route, popping into a store to buy a frozen cottage pie or macaroni and cheese on the way home. Would it have been…
Food & Travel Lekker Brekker: Kedgeree, a spicy start (or end) to the day February 17, 2026 Daddy Kedgeree seems an odd sort of name. You may wonder: is it Irish? Is it Indian? Caribbean perhaps? Indian would be closer to the truth, but in modern times it…
Food & Travel Caprese salad with a touch of the Karoo February 17, 2026 Daddy Caprese literally means “of Capri”. The salad we call Caprese, or Insalata Caprese in Italian, originates on the Isle of Capri on the Tyrrhenian Sea where the Mediterranean meets the…