Lamb

It’s hard to find anything more comforting in this cold weather than slow-cooked lamb shanks. I always love lots of garlic with lamb – there’s plenty in here. This dish is particularly easy as the browning of the shanks and vegetables happens by roasting them on a high heat before you turn the oven down […]

I think of all the meats to slow cook, lamb is my favourite, particularly in the winter. I love its flavour, the way it always falls apart and the fact it combines really well with red or white wine or in this case dry sherry. I made this last week for Mike’s birthday and it […]

I don’t like winter but I do like the fact it means warming slow cooked dishes. On my day off on Monday while thinking about the lamb shoulder we’d eaten at Bistro Paul Bert I realised that I hadn’t cooked lamb in ages. Thence this recipe. It doesn’t look great but tastes really good.     […]

  Quinces have quite a short season so I like to cook with them as much as possible while they’re around. They’re tart so need a counter balance – here I’ve added sweetness to the tagine with raisins but you can add any dried fruit. The quinces also work really well with the lamb to […]

  For Father’s Day last Sunday my parents came for dinner. Because we don’t arrive home from the Market till late afternoon and are tired (it’s the end of the week for us), I wanted to cook something quick and easy but full of flavour. I’d bought two racks of lamb from Pleased to Meat […]

  After last week’s inspiration from my photos of my favourite Moroccan traiteur in Paris I decided it was time to make a tagine or two again. It’s really easy and has a full-bodied flavour which comes from the ras-el-hanout, dried fruit and the black garlic.  Ras-el-hanout is a mix of 11 different aromatic spices. […]