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salt crust baked potato filled with a cream cheese and chive filling on a hessian mat

Salt Crust Baked Potatoes

FacebookSalt crusting is a cooking method which you most commonly find used for fish because it keeps in the moisture and cooks evenly. This recipe for salt-crusted baked potatoes produces a better flavour and a perfectly seasoned skin. You can reduce the baking time by 10-20 minutes if you microwave […]

offal ragu

Offal Ragu

Facebook In a recent UK cooking programme, chef Rick Stein visited an up-and-coming restaurant in Manchester where an offal ragu was currently the most popular dish on the menu. I thought to myself that sounds interesting so I decided to investigate further. Ragu’s are a meaty Italian sauce, slow cooked […]

sliced duck breast cooked magnet style on a plate

Magret Duck Breast à la D`Atagnan

Facebook Every recipe has a story and Ariane, the founder of D’Artagnan foods, is very involved in this one.  Her father, Chef André Daguin, was the first to cook duck breast like a steak, pan-searing and serving it rare. That was back in the 1950s at his restaurant in Southwest France, […]