Greedy Gourmet

What is your favourite cut of pork?

After we prepared the Ch’tiramisu we got started on the main meal which in French is called Pavé de cabillaud au miel de fleur de bière, palette colorée de légumes de saison. It is a very simple yet nourishing dish from Northern France that was enjoyed with some white wine and bread on the [...]

Ch’tiramisu is Northern France’s answer to Italy’s Tiramisu. What a strange name, I thought. Where is it from? A quick search on the net yielded very few English results and the rest were all in French. There is a famous French movie, called Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis, which means “welcome to the sticks”. “Ch’ti” means [...]

My good friend, Robyn, and her two sisters came over for lunch the other day and as usual I had a treat in store for them. I was keen to use my brand spanking new loose bottom flan tin and what better opportunity than baking a tart?

What do you serve when there is a special occasion to be celebrated and guests are coming over? A terrine! It never fails to impress and looks more complicated than it really is to prepare. Shhh…don’t tell anyone that, you want to look like a superstar chef!

Confession time. Looking at these photos you will realise that I’m a lover of all things saucy. Plus I was darn hungry when doing this photo shoot and went a little bit overboard. For me it is utter bliss if there is sauce with meat, sauce with mash, sauce with vegetables, sauce with EVERYTHING. [...]

There are no two ways about it. I love pork fillet/tenderloin. Especially when it is cooked to perfection and still slightly rosy pink inside. Drizzle a delicious sauce on top and I’m in my element. I’ve given you recipes where the meat is paired with fruit, marinated in a charming Chinese sauce and soaked up [...]

After trying out countless of Coq au Vin recipes, I chucked them all away and cooked the dish from scratch….my way. I never did get hold of a rooster as is the traditional way of preparing this classic dish. Nor did I drown the bird in a whole bottle of red wine. None the less, [...]

A quick recipe search for John Dory on a few food sites left me mostly empty-handed and disappointed. Thanks to Good Taste Foods, this was my first opportunity to taste this notorious fish and I really, really didn’t want to make a cock-up. It suddenly dawned on me you really can’t go wrong with serving [...]