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Spicy beer pickle
It has just been half-term in our household and following tradition we made our Christmas cakes - yes, we have several, having first soaked the fruit...
Pale ale pizza crust
A pizzaiolo is a chef specially trained to make pizzas. I spent several years of my career training pizzaiolos across the country and cannot begin to...
Strawberry beer lollipops
This month’s recipe is refreshing, fun and, best of all, as easy as pie. To be honest, a lot easier than baking a pie. To date, the recipes I’ve sugge...
Holy trinity of deliciousness
Summer is all about groups of friends socialising, maybe watching sport, barbecuing a feast of flavour or just grabbing a beer in a pub beer garden. I...
Cider-glazed pulled pork with apple slaw
Last weekend I was lucky enough to visit Guernsey for a christening and enjoyed the first really lovely spring evening of the year, sipping the local...
A bitter sweet symphony
It’s June 1997, and The Verve released their hit single Bitter Sweet Symphony. It is really quite a bleak song to be honest, but the title perfectly c...
St Patrick’s Day Irish stew with Titanic Stout
Will you be celebrating St Patrick’s Day with a couple of pints of stout and a hearty bowl of Irish stew? A couple of hundred years ago Beamish was by...
Venison casserole with cherry beer and cheesy dumplings
Slow-cooked casseroles, stews and braises are a personal favourite as they develop layers of flavour. This venison casserole is cooked with root veget...
Mature cheddar and Nelson’s Revenge chowder
As I write this in early December, it is decidedly chilly and very wet outside in Jersey. The perfect weather for soup. Now, there are cold soups like...
Pie fit for a Roman aristocrat
While the evidence for an early pie, a kind of honey cake, can be found on wall of the tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses I, the Romans were the first to bake a...
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