Pasta Fredda with Smoked Trout Join my small-group food & wine tours to Italy to discover more traditional Italian specialties! My Italian friends would insist that pasta fredda, also called ‘summer pasta’, is not a pasta salad (not even a warm pasta salad) but a delicious dish of freshly cooked pasta tossed with a sauce […]
Potato & Scamorza Tart with Smoked Eel Like this recipe? Discover more delicious Italian dishes on my small-group Italian food & wine tours. This delicious potato and scamorza tart can be vegetarian, but – as with the potato and Fontina tart that inspired it – I often add some smoked fish like hot-smoked eel or […]
Guangxi-Style Smoked Trout Salad Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Chinese cooking class! This Guangxi-style smoked trout salad is inspired by a versatile pork salad that Andy Evans taught me when he was at Spice Temple. It’s more a concept than a recipe; Andy usually makes it with char siu (see video below) and […]
Smoked Eel San Choy Bau Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Chinese cooking class! Use this smoked eel san choy bau recipe as inspiration for all sorts of san choy bau. Wok-tossed chopped prawns or squid make great variations, as do chicken, quail, duck or pork meat. To get neat lettuce cups, remove the […]
Potted Trout Discover Scotland’s excellent smoked fish on my Scottish ‘Seafood & Spirits’ Tour! Potting is an old British technique for preserving meat or seafood by storing it under a layer of fat, similar to French confit or rillettes. The food was traditionally cooked thoroughly to eliminate excess moisture then packed into a ceramic pot […]
Aussie Solomon Gundy Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Caribbean cooking class inspired by Paul Carmichael! Solomon Gundy is a classic Jamaican spread (also called solomon-a-gundy) made from heavily salted herring so strongly smoked that the flesh turns a reddish brown (thus ‘red herrings’). The rather odd sounding name comes from the old-fashioned English […]
Potato & Fontina Tart with Smoked Trout Join my small-group food & wine tours to Switzerland and Emilia-Romagna and lunch with me in Valle d’Aosta. This versatile potato and Fontina tart is inspired by the cuisine of Valle d’Aosta – the tiny Italian region tucked into the corner of the Alps where Italy, Switzerland and […]