THERE is always too much celery. It needs some attention. It is the needy child in the kitchen. You can serve it with cheese or as a base for canapés but that is a bit retro for me. Celery’s greatest virtue is as part of the base for any soup. It is a fast flavourContinue reading “What to do with celery…”
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Sexy oat porridge recipes
It is strange that some of the best alkaline porridge recipes derive from the Caribbean. This one in the picture is a Tesco fruit super-topper. Porridge’s image as a subsistence food – which sustained huge tracts of northern Europe through the middle ages before the advent of bakeries and yeasted breads – was invariably fromContinue reading “Sexy oat porridge recipes”
Perfect porridge
Porridge is so easy that no one ever bothers to write down a recipe. Scottish mothers probably had different versions for each child – gloopy, smoothy, oaty, creamy, firm. There are many different declensions (depending on how much milk is used) before we get to the matter of topping with sliced banana or honey. InContinue reading “Perfect porridge”