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In our last post we said we were trying to support regenerative food production where ever possible.  So we are not going without meat for January – no ‘Veganuary” for us! Our plan is to continue to eat less (but better) meat but all year…

Many people are trying meat free January – but not for us!!  We are reducing the volume of meat we are eating, year round, not just for a month!  We are also trying to buy this smaller volume of meat from producers supporting regenerative farming;…

I suppose I have never really given red cabbage much of a thought! If it has ever crossed my mind it would be as a vegetable to go with a Christmas meal.  Have we been missing a trick?!  This is a fabulous, flexible and delicious…

We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Award for “Cooking Blog of the Year – UK  2021” by LuxLife Magazine in their 2021 Restaurant and Bar Awards.

I have to say I have struggled with the idea of writing for the food blog when the world is being subject to the ravages of the Corona Virus and so the Smokedfinefood.co.uk has been rather quiet in the past few weeks.  However, looking at…

We have been working with the idea of cooking with seasonal products as much as we can over the last year.  This is hardly a new concept, and indeed historically it was the only way to eat. This habit has changed with better forms of…

The idea of eating liver seems to divide people in the same way that Marmite does – you love it or loath it!  Well both Jackie and I are in the ‘love it’ camp.  This is the quickest of quick dishes – I make no…

Today’s post is short but sweet…. We all deserve a day off and this day was the Big Green Egg’s turn to relax. Rather than firing up the grill, we made a simple salad with apple, tomatoes and cheese. …and it was delicious!

Summer 2016  I simply said to my wife Jackie: Do you think it would be a silly idea to take the Big Green Egg on holiday with us? – quite expecting the “yes of course it is silly!” reply.  We were driving to Tuscany from…