I love beetroot, I may have mentioned that already! So I am always looking for new ways to serve it, although grated raw in a salad suits me fine! It is so versatile and such a wine friendly vegetable I do enjoy playing around with it to find different textures and layers of flavour to partner different styles of wine.…
These are two classic southern French dishes that you may or maynot have heard of! The first is a Biterrois dish, meaning that it originates from the Languedocian town of Béziers. It is very similar to the Provençal Ratatouille but with some key differences: they way that the vegetables are cut and the the omission of courgettes! The second is…
Thankfully I have some tastings this coming month, it has been a dreadful blow to business this Covid-19 nonsense!! And as is often the case I have a mix of dietary requirements, from those that eat everything, to vegetarians and vegans and people with allergies and intolerances. It is true it adds more time and costs me more, but with…
Beetroot in any format is delicious in my mind, however one of the most fabulous ways to enjoy it in the summer months is to bbq it. The markets here sell pre bbq’d versions at a somewhat elevated price!!! You see them looking all wrinkled and blackened. When I first moved here it was a revelation, but I decided to…
Tomorrow night I am tasting two wines from Château Maris in the Minervois. Le Touge 2017 and Les Planels 2017, both Syrah based wines made biodynamicaly from one of the regions pioneers of biodynamic farming. These are wines that are big on fruit, spice and alcohol. In this heat the alcohol can be a bit off putting so I am…