If I ever get the chance to write a book, I think I’d call it ‘Store Cupboard Staples’, recipes with all the things I keep in the cupboard of a small galley kitchen and they would include smoked paprika, capers, anchovies, chilli flakes, thyme, vanilla pods, muscovado sugar, sherry vinegar, coriander and mustard seeds, and very good olive oil. You may be surprised just how many of these make it into today’s recipe.
Culinary History
Chinese Shrimp or Prawn Toast
Chinese Shrimp or Prawn Toast or Haa Dō Si 蝦多士. Whether you call it prawn, or shrimp toast this Cantonese Dim Sum recipe is delicious.
The Best Homemade Baked Beans Breakfast
The best homemade baked beans breakfast. We live in an age of convenience. If you want some baked beans for breakfast, lunch or dinner, you open a tin. Tinned baked beans have a long history. H. J. Heinz started making them in 1886. They are a good source of protein and fibre. But on the downside, they can contain shocking amounts of sugar and salt. The good news is that with a little time and forethought, you can make the most amazing homemade baked beans.
My Pan Bagnat is so Nice
History has it a version of Pan Bagnat was made in as early as the sixteenth century for hungry fishermen by their wives. They scooped out the centre of day-old bread packed it full of whatever was at hand and wrapped them in cloth. As a peasant dish the recipe was not likely to have contained tuna which would have been a much later addition. The whole thing is made in advance to allow all the flavours to soak into the bread.