Food and Wine Matching

  1. Food and Wine Matching – May 2018
    Posted On: May 3rd, 2018

    Food and Wine Matching – May 2018

    "Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!" This irritating yet strangely unforgettable refrain allegedly originates from the Las Vegas strip in the 1970s when a standard bet was $2, which was also enough to pay for the most common in house set meal the ‘chicken dinner’. Hosts on slow moving tables would repeat the incantation indicating that a […]
  2. Food and Wine Matching - April 2018
    Posted On: March 29th, 2018

    Food and Wine Matching - April 2018

    With Spring officially underway and Easter approaching my thoughts turn to new season's lamb for entertaining family and friends. My default dish is lamb 'boulangère' whereby you slow cook a shoulder or leg on a bed of herbs, stock and sliced potatoes but, in an effort to ring the changes, I have been experimenting with […]
  3. Food and Wine Matching - March 2018
    Posted On: March 1st, 2018

    Food and Wine Matching - March 2018

    A consummate master of self-reinvention Jamie Oliver's magnificently minimalist '5 Ingredients – Quick and Easy Food' topped the best-sellers list in the UK last year. It wasn't the best-selling cookbook, it was the best-selling book bar none; shifting an astonishing 716,071 hardback volumes. It's premise is simple (as the title suggests) each recipe uses only […]
  4. Food and Wine Matching - February 2018
    Posted On: January 31st, 2018

    Food and Wine Matching - February 2018

    If I am blessed with some down time at the weekend I like nothing more than tuning in to the inexhaustible 'Desert Island Discs' podcast archive and faffing around in the kitchen. I like to batch cook semi-industrial quantities of Bolognese sauce (ragù if we are purist) much of which I freeze for subsequent deployment […]
  5. Food and Wine Matching - January 2018
    Posted On: January 3rd, 2018

    Food and Wine Matching - January 2018

    After the Christmas festivities and New Year celebrations January can seem an awfully cold, long and cheerless month. To that end I try and cook some warming, restorative dishes that can be served up from a single pot in generous portions. One such is 'Braised Pork with Rigatoni' from Allegra McEvedy's magnificent 'Leon Ingredients and […]
  6. Food and Wine Matching - December 2017
    Posted On: December 7th, 2017

    Food and Wine Matching - December 2017

    There will be 15 of us dining chez Yapp on Christmas Day so I am not banking on having sufficient left-overs for our traditional Boxing Day repast of 'Pulled and Devilled' turkey. This is an excellent 18th Century English dish re-discovered by Jane Grigson and featured in her award winning 1974 cookbook 'English Food'. The […]
  7. Food and Wine Matching - November 2017
    Posted On: November 1st, 2017

    Food and Wine Matching - November 2017

    As a father of teenage sons, who are both over 6 foot tall, and can wolf down quite extraordinary volumes of food in a single sitting it is imperative that my culinary repertoire includes some staple dishes that are cheap and easy to prepare and sufficiently tasty to be trotted out frequently. One such is […]
  8. Food and Wine Matching - October 2017
    Posted On: October 2nd, 2017

    Food and Wine Matching - October 2017

    As leaves start to change colour and the evenings draw in the picnics and barbecues of Summer seem a distant memory and we can now focus on the news season's game and wild mushrooms. These stronger, darker flavours suit the weather and open up a whole raft of wine matching options as bigger, bolder wines […]
  9. Food and Wine Matching – September 2017
    Posted On: September 4th, 2017

    Food and Wine Matching – September 2017

    It fell upon me to host my book group's most recent meeting and thankfully my book choice of 'Dodgers' by Bill Beverly was extremely well-received. Beverly's debut novel is about a road trip undertaken by a group of youthful LA gang members who are sent on a cross-country mission by their overlord. It's gripping stuff […]
  10. Food and Wine Matching - August 2017
    Posted On: August 1st, 2017

    Food and Wine Matching - August 2017

    Les Grandes Vacances Every August la famille Yapp decamps to the Dordogne in an estate car packed with tents, bikes, dogs and disaffected youth. The southward journey is horrendous but after twenty consecutive years we have at least agreed upon the best route and CDs of Simon Brett's marvellous Charles Paris mysteries, narrated with aplomb […]

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