Cottage Pie
February 14, 2021
In How To Eat, Nigella Lawson describes the British traditional Sunday lunch thus: Proper British Sunday lunch is everything contemporary cooking is not. Meat-heavy, hostile to innovation, resolutely formalized, it is as much ritual as meal, and an almost extinct ritual at that. With their military vocabulary and timetables, my…
Italian Meat Loaf
October 7, 2015
What makes this meat loaf Italian? I honestly haven’t a clue. But the recipe, which comes from Tamasin Day-Lewis’s Supper For A Song, is one I’ve made countless times. By its nature variable, this is a kitchen-sink meatloaf: in the recipe headnote, Day-Lewis says one should “inspect your fridge for…
