Grandads Cookbook

Forestière Sauce

08/11/2023

Forestière sauce or wild mushroom sauce is a French classic that goes with almost anything.

Confit Garlic

08/10/2023

Confit garlic is one of those ingredients that you didn’t know you needed in your kitchen until you tried it.

Grandad’s Gravy

25/08/2023

Every roast dinner deserves a really good gravy, it’s just too dry or plain without one!

Spicy Cauliflower Fritters

15/05/2023

Cauliflower is very much back in fashion as a favourite low-carb food. These spicy cauliflower fritters with ginger and chilli will give the taste buds a workout.

Slow Roasted Tomato Confit

17/10/2022

These slow-roasted tomatoes are cooked with garlic and oil and then stored in jars to use in tons of different ways.

English Clotted Cream

15/09/2022

Clotted cream is a speciality from the counties of Devon and Cornwall in Southwest England. As it’s name suggests it is thick, rich and the ideal accompaniment to scones.

Devilled Kidneys

27/07/2022

Devilled kidneys are a classic British breakfast dish reaching their height of popularity during the Victorian era.

Cooks have been dreaming up ways to use up leftover potatoes and vegetables in different parts of Britain since the humble spud was first mashed.
South of the border we English fry up ours to make bubble and squeak. Across the Irish sea, they make colcannon and in Scotland, they have the curiously named rumbledethumps.