Welcome to my recipes
There are getting on for 1000 in this collection. They’re all simple, seasonal and very achievable, whether you’re cooking something quick and light or settling in for something slow and comforting. The recipes here reflect the way I cook at home and the way I like to eat; they are very much shaped by the seasons and by the ingredients themselves.
To help you find your way around my recipes, use the search bar below, it allows you to explore the recipes in whatever way suits you. You can choose a season, select a course, or search by recipe type. With so many here, it's a good way to make browsing easier and more intuitive. Many of the following recipes are accompanied by video, so you can cook along or just get a sense of the dish before you begin.
Steamed raspberry jam & rose-petal pudding
This pudding is a distillation of both raspberries and roses, and it works beautifully
Date, olive oil & fennel cake
If you like the peppery, herbaceous qualities of a good extra-virgin olive oil and the sweet, clean taste of fennel seed, then you’re sure to like this cake
Buttered jacket potatoes with smoked trout, red onions, horseradish & chives
For this recipe, I bake whole red onions with their skins on, right next to the spuds – all that wonderful sweetness is locked in and, once cooked, they taste amazing
Crab with rhubarb, chilli, yoghurt & fennel seed
Crab is really good during the winter. The meat is rich and sweet and the shells are heavy with it. It’s also a good time to pair it up with rhubarb
Warm salad of seared skirt steak, roast celeriac, red onions & herbs
Skirt steak is one of my favourite cuts of beef. It knocks the socks off fillet and sirloin and is relatively inexpensive by comparison
Pork liver pâté with green peppercorns & sage
Brined green peppercorns are characterful little things and liven up a pâté in a way I adore
Roast chicken, parsley & mustard pie
The pie is the jewel in the leftover roast chicken’s crown, and well worth the time it takes to make
Smoked ham, cheese & parsley sauce toasts
Take everything that’s good about ham and parsley sauce, put it on toast and grill it
Fermented cabbage, apple & celeriac salad with chia seeds & goat’s cheese
I make this salad when I have a batch of fermented cabbage on the go. I like the tang and the intensity you get from it
Leek & potato soup with smoked cheese & chives
What is it that constitutes simple? I never know. In my experience even the simplest things can be complex
Squash, chicory, hazelnuts & rosemary
Simple cooking is about understanding the balance of flavour and texture and how these components play out together on a plate. This wintry salad goes some way towards illustrating this point
A simple fermented cabbage recipe
The main reason I like to ferment cabbage is for the flavour and texture, which are almost otherworldly
