Grub

If talk of Rocket stoves and Chimineas is all Double Dutch ovens to you then take heart. This is the lingua franca of the campfire cooks and given a…

You only get really good pizzas from really hot ovens – far hotter than your average oven – and that only happens in a woodfired oven. Of course, being…

Don’t get me going!! Every week people tell us we’re mad. Half of them because they don’t believe you can cook on a rocket stove and the other half…

‘Local Provenance!’ That’s what it’s all about – or so they say.

‘They’ being the TV gurus we all love to hate.

YES CHEF!

If you’ve collected the logs, lit the fire and…

Domed Eggs

“J’adour les Oeufs a La Cupole” cries the sexy movie starlet.

“We’re domed, Captain Mainwairing, we’re domed.” cried Corporal Jones.
But for the lack of an extra O this simple…

Poached eggs; Not easy to do well.

All too easy to do too well. Resulting in a rubbery white coat over an unyielding block of solid yolk. And so often…

Hugh Fernley Witenthtall (who we love to take the mickey out of) says never name your hens. So we haven’t. Well apart from Addy, Sleepie, Chubby, and Eva. And…

A generous wadge of chopped garlic, squish of lime, a bundle of chilli, chuck in a handful of seafood and there you have it – well almost!

Don’t forget the…

My Mum always said “If you can find your way through the kitchen when you’re cooking steak, the pan’s not hot enough!

Well, that was then and this is now….

So the bread you made is really not cutting the mustard (hmm), the ocado van (yes they do deliver along with all the others. I can see them now…

Quicker than a  flash, faster than a rocket. with more punch than a teenage party when the parents are away.

This tiny but mighty little half pint (actually half a…

We enjoy making the the food at the DG. And we now have a range of meals that work so well that we’ve had to fire the dishwasher!…