Sauces can make the simple sublime. Whether they’re sweet or savoury, basic or complex, based on butter, oil or purée, they dress our meat and vegetables to create a memorable dish. Here are my favourite sauce recipes.
Profiteroles with Chocolate Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class Inspired by Damien Pignolet! Profiteroles are sometimes filled with whipped cream or custard, but I think it’s hard to beat really good vanilla ice cream. They’re a great do-ahead dessert as the puffs can be made days in advance and recrisped […]
Vitello Tonnato Discover more Italian regional specialties on one of my small-group food & wine tours to Italy This elegant Italian version of surf and turf hails from the north-western region of Piedmont. It is delicious, though when prepared correctly not particularly attractive, and its English description of ‘poached veal in tuna mayonnaise’ doesn’t do […]
Chicken Kiev Like Chicken Kiev? You’ll love my online cooking class featuring the food of America’s Deep South! I love retro chicken Kiev! Deep-fried chicken breast wrapped around garlicky herb butter – it looks so impressive, but is really quite easy if you follow the recipe step-by-step. I use chives, parsley and tarragon because that’s […]
Steak with Green Peppercorn Hollandaise Explore Scotland’s West Coast on my Scottish ‘Seafood & Spirits’ Tour! I was served steak with green peppercorn hollandaise at the Kilchoan Hotel on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula on Scotland’s west coast. A simple hollandaise with pickled green peppercorns is such an easy way to dress up a steak with what’s […]
Sticky Date Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! Also called sticky toffee pudding, sticky date pudding is pure comfort food – and, if you keep a packet of dates in the pantry, it’s quick and easy to whip up without any special shopping. […]
Entrecôte Café de Paris Discover more delicious Swiss dishes on my small group food & wine tour of Switzerland! A compound butter is one of the easiest ways to turn a piece of meat into a meal. It can be as simple as bottarga or garlic and fresh herbs mixed through butter, or as complex […]