Gordon White

London life skills learnt the hard way. Also recipes for some reason.

Recipe: Tarte De Pâques

Don’t let my extreme cultural insensitivity stop you. This is delicious served warm/room temperature and finished off with a nice glass of vin santo.

Consider this the Total Recall look. (Think about it.)

That’s A Whole Quarter Of A Year??

Blogs are like children. You do actually have a favourite one. And this is my recessive ginger blog.

Google's inaugural Think Publisher event last week

Butternut Curry For Dinner So You Can Have A Nice Lunch For Once

I ate this cold straight from the fridge but then I am as urbane and sophisticated as a NASCAR pit man.

It really does not feel like four months since I cooked this. Hope the rest of those lentils are okay.

Genoese Squid For People Who Never Cook Season

This recipe is Genoese-inspired, from Diana Henry’s life changing book, Food From Plenty. The dish is for people who -like me- actually really like seafood but never really cook it because they’re too chicken shit.

Radish And Olive Salad For A Confusing Detox

In between catching up with business partners, family and friends over the new year there are evenings at home spent crying into my XXXL muumuu about how much weight was gained over Christmas.

Recipe: Tarte De Pâques

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The idea was to have an Italianish Easter. What could be more Italianish than an Italian recipe done in a French style?

Anything. Literally anything could be more Italianish.

But don’t let my extreme cultural insensitivity stop you. Essentially this is the classic torta pasqualina done instead in my quiche Provençale tin.

It is delicious served warm/room temperature and finished off with a nice glass of vin santo.

At the time of publishing there are still 2.5 days remaining of this Easter. If you’re looking for something to do that isn’t the same old boring lamb then really think about …

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That’s A Whole Quarter Of A Year??

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Blogs are like children. You do actually have a favourite one. And this is my recessive ginger blog.

It turns out you can only transmute your life into one medium of creative expression. (Two, tops.)

So the idea of re-capping the last few months with actual words like 25% of a Christmas letter no one ever reads looked unappealing.

Trouble is… quite a bit of stuff has happened. Even just going over my Posterous a moment ago I’m all “oh yeah… that trip I went on.”

Having a smartphone and a photoblog -which you savages all should have- is actually …

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Butternut Curry For Dinner So You Can Have A Nice Lunch For Once

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This is definitely one of those dishes that tastes better the next day.

In fact, I ate this cold straight from the fridge but then I am as urbane and sophisticated as a NASCAR pit man.

The recipe sorta emerged at the end of November when it suddenly occurred to me the next six weeks were going to be filled with booze, rich foods and nary a vegetable in between.

Hence it seemed like a last chance to get some vitamins in before being crushed underfoot by the jingling hooves of festive obesity.

So yes, it’s probably not something I …

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Genoese Squid For People Who Never Cook Season

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Squid and potato is my favourite form of Surf and Turf. In fact, it’s probably the one of the only ones I allow to be consumed anywhere near me.

This time last year I was in Barcelona for work. On our first night my colleague, who actually speaks a little Spanish, asked our waiter what he’d recommend and just asked for that.

He came out with an enormous tray of polbo á feira -fried potatoes topped with chopped octopus and paprika. One of the best plates of food I have had in my life. (When he said it was …

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Radish And Olive Salad For A Confusing Detox

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In between catching up with business partners, family and friends over the new year there are evenings at home spent crying into my XXXL muumuu about how much weight was gained over Christmas.

This inevitably leads to declarations of “salad for dinner” all week.

Which is hard in January in the northern hemisphere as it’s not really salad season.

Unless you’re a radish.

Ingredients

500g radishes. If you’ve bought them fresh so they still have decent leaves, wash and remove them too.
200g black olives. (A bit less once drained, actually.) We managed to find pitted kalamata in a

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A Very European Union Of Sausages

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Sausages baked with vegetables seems very English to me.

Yes, I know everyone does it but other countries seem to do it with more interest and variation.

Chorizo, for instance, goes with everything and appears fun and exciting and vivacious like a hot Spaniard you meet at sunset by the beach one summer’s night who whisks you into a brief, whirlwind romance you will one day tell your grandchildren about… possibly on a ship in a Jim Cameron movie.

Or at the very least at a dramatically-relevant moment during a large family get-together like a graduation or Thanksgiving, possibly after …

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How To Do Burns Night At Home

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I’ll be out at a work event on Burns Night (the 25th) unfortunately, as I was really looking forward to giving this a crack.

Instead I’ll just have to settle for some Talisker when I get home. Boo hoo.

You however, should totally get amongst it. Below is a menu suggestion.

But first let’s address the elephant in the room.

Haggis.

Look, just do it. Think of it like communal sausage. You’ll be genuinely surprised how good it really is. I’m not saying you need to construct one… just buy it.

In Scotland everyone has their preferred brands but if …

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Seventies Party Food For People Who Weren’t Alive In The Seventies

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Quite a number of this year’s food trends have a seventies feel to them… chopped liver, wines made of things other than grapes.

So we may as well lean into the trend.

Here are some things I served up at a pre-Christmas get together at our house along with various cheeses and my now internationally famous chilli jam.