Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
Go on, be honest, when was the last time you used sorrel in a dish? Can’t remember? Us neither, yet...
We are now entering the height of the blood (or blush) orange season because they are their sweetest in January and February (something to do with the contrast between the warm Mediterranean days and colder nights which turns the flesh red). They’re delicious raw or sliced into salads, particularly with...
It’s that time of year; very wet, damp, cold, muddy, dark and everything else unpleasant. The plants in the pots...
Helen Stanton of Forum Books in Corbridge, The Bound, Whitley Bay, and The Accidental Bookshop, Alnwick, reviews her latest food...
Helen Stanton of Forum Books in Corbridge and The Bound, Whitley Bay, serves up her choice of the latest food titles for every book lover A Cooks’ Book // Nigel Slater Fourth Estate £30 Any book by Nigel Slater gets read, if not cooked, cover to cover in my house so...
Helen Stanton, of Forum Books in Corbridge and The Bound, Whitley Bay, serves up the best of the latest food...
Some years ago, I saw a crowd funder for a new type of beehive developed by farmers in Australia. Their...
Yes, it’s not one of the most oft-served dinners in the Appetite kitchen either, but why not? Guinea fowl is gamey but not overwhelmingly so, and is cooked much like chicken, but take care to keep it moist, as it’s smaller and has less fat than chicken, so you have...
Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen by Erin French, Aurum Press £16.99 In this life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal and...
I feel like Vallum has gone through a sort of rejuvenation during lockdown. It’s as if the world stopped and...
Yes, broad beans. We know this column is usually reserved for out of the ordinary ingredients, but then it struck us that this in-season vegetable, while utterly workaday and about as exotic as a bowl of porridge is unfairly derided in too many households, and that’s not fair, because broad...