9 March 2026
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On Friday we went out for lunch and I had what was billed a fish burger… mainly because I was intrigued to see what it was. It turned out it was a smallish piece of fried, battered fish in a … Continue reading
21 November 2024
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Recently, I’ve cooked up kedgeree for dinner a couple of times, based on this Rick Stein recipe from the BBC Good Food site. It is the kind of recipe that doesn’t need too much precision in the quantities and is … Continue reading
2 June 2015
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Virgin birth was in the news today. No, not that one (we’re about as far through the year from Christmas as you can get) but wild sawfish populations in Florida. Naturally occuring parthenogenesis doesn’t explain, nor explain away, the Christian … Continue reading
21 May 2012
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This weekend’s top kitchen concoction (just finished off in today’s packed lunch) is baked salmon fishcakes. We recently bought a whole salmon which I divided into portions and, for the weekend, I got one of the bags out of the … Continue reading
11 February 2012
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I am posting this far too late to be of use to anyone else (closing time was hours ago) but I enjoyed a free oyster today at Haymans. They have had a branch in the Oxford covered market for a … Continue reading
28 January 2012
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It was my turn to cook up a delicious dinner today so I popped down to visit the fish market that opened on a local industrial estate last year and selected a monkfish tail. Cooked up following Rick Stein’s Asturian … Continue reading
21 August 2010
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Thanks to Paul and Rachael for the sea bass they gave us today. We put them on a bed of sliced onions, stuffed with thyme and peppercorns (blended in lemon juice and black beer), rubbed with salt and drizzled with … Continue reading