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The recipes are clear and detailed, but easy to follow whatever your level of cookery competence. Important to me is the encouragement to grow or buy and cook fresh food, to enjoy the fruit and vegetables at their best, available according to season. It was hard not to feel a bit envious of Slater: he seems to have nothing to do but wander about the garden, shop in fancy food stores, and cook. Once he mentions a meeting (at his home) and seems to find it quite tiring. I guess he made a lot writing those food columns! Or perhaps he's retired now; as an American I forget that in some other countries people can still retire without penury.

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My cooking slows down at this time of year, and weekend lunches are cooked in a succession of much-loved casseroles: an old earthenware dish, a deeper one of heavy cast iron, and my ancient and ridiculously cheap Chinese pot, which does for anything in which star anise or ginger is involved. Beautiful, useful kitchenware that is patiently growing older with me. Published: 29 Oct 2023 Nigel Slater’s autumn recipes for baked sweet potatoes, and a fig and hazelnut cake Slater has two elder brothers, Adrian and John. John was the child of a neighbour, and was adopted by Slater's parents before the writer was born. Nigel has appeared on Desert Island Discs, Gardeners’ World, Gardener’s Question Time and Front Row. He is a regular contributor to Woman’s Hour and The Food Programme. Get a grill or griddle pan hot. Place the kofta on the griddle and let them brown nicely, then carefully turn and cook the other side. They will probably need about 10 minutes. Serve hot.

Slater's evocative prose gives the impression that you are already devouring that strawberry mascarpone tart"Financial Times, Books of the Year. Put the butter and caster sugar into a food mixer and beat till light and fluffy. While this is happening, cut the apples into small chunks, removing the cores as you go and dropping the fruit into a bowl with the juice of the lemon. Toss the apples with the cinnamon and demerara sugar. Oh, it's so sad to finish this book, because I know there's not another one waiting for me on my bookshelf.

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Roughly chop 4 tablespoons of pumpkin seeds and add them to the softening onion. Stir in 2 teaspoons of ras el hanout and a little salt. The first two trees I planted in this garden were apples: a Blenheim Orange, the apple of the Benedictine monasteries, for cooking, and a Discovery for its copious blossom and the scent of its small, flat fruit, which reminds me of the apple trees we had when I was a child. Neither has fruited well this year, and what fruit there was has been eagerly scrumped by the squirrels.Nigel Slater's Toast, the stage play of his much loved memoir, has been performed at The Lowry in Salford and at the Traverse Theatre at theEdinburgh Fringe in the summer of 2018. Adapted by Henry Filloux-Bennett and directed by Jonnie Riordan, it starredGiles Cooperas Nigel. Toast was on stage at The Other Palace Theatre in London before touring the country for six months.

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Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any). Cut the bacon into finger-width strips and let them cook in a large, shallow pan over a moderate heat till the fat runs and colours to a pale gold.Another great book by Nigel Slater. This time he cooks his way through the calendar year. As with APPETITE (his other book I own) this book reads as well as any novel, and introduces its recipes like anecdotes. I love being able to refer to the date (or month anyway) I am myself cooking in to see what might be a suitable recipe/shopping list for the day's dinner. Cooking food slowly on a low heat, covered with a lid, gives time for the ingredients to come together, for the flavours to mellow and soften and become as one. This gentle style of cooking in liquid has an hour or more to draw the marrow from the bones, which, together with the fat, deeply enriches the cooking juices. You effortlessly create a softly burbling pot of succulence and savour. Nigel has written hisweekly column for The Observer newspaper for almost thirty years. Itis his curiosity andfascination for details, his observationsof thesmall, human moments of cooking and eating that are the hallmarkofhis writing. The much-loved essays from his kitchen are photographed each week by Jonathan Lovekin. Heat the olive oil in a large shallow pan, then brown the lamb steaks on both sides. Remove to a plate. Chop the onion, celery and carrots into roughly 1cm cubes and add to the pan in which you browned the meat. Cook over a moderate heat for at least 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, till they are nicely coloured and approaching softness. Return the lamb to the pan, add the Marsala, season and bring to the boil. Lower the heat and continue cooking, covered with a lid, for 30-40 minutes, till the lamb is tender. Remove the cake from the tin and dust with the icing sugar before slicing with a large, heavy knife.