Beginning this week, Chef Kevin Belton joins our lineup of food columnists.
Chef Kevin Belton
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There are many great plant-based Italian recipes – pasta alla norma, mushroom risotto, pasta e fagioli (sometimes) – but none, it must be said, packs quite the savoury punch of a classic ragù alla bolognese. If you believe vegans deserve as much pleasure in this brief and brutish life as everyone else, then attempting to reverse engineer this one for them (and for everyone else who is trying to cut down on their meat consumption) feels very much like a mission worth annoying a few purists for.
The challenge, it turned out, was less in recre…….
French fries transcend fashion. Food trends come and go but chips persist as a source of comforting joy, something we all badly need this winter. For many, that will mean sun-gold chips doused in salt and vinegar, ketchup or mayo. But why stop there?
With budgets tight, loaded fries are currently enjoying a bounce as a relatively affordable, filling treat. Last year, Burger King introduced jazzed-up fries (topped with cheese sauce and/or bacon bits), as did several big-name pub chains. In that same period pub chip sales were up 15%, according to…….
These limitations allowed banana bread’s profile to flourish, expanding the synapses tucked inside a pretty simple recipe. As PJ Hamel notes, “Banana-bread recipes down the decades have in common bananas, sweetener, a chemical leavener, some fat and flour. But beyond that they can differ wildly.” And across Caribbean foodways — Jamaica was the first commercial banana producer in the Western Hemisphere — banana bread remains indispensable. My mother’s recipe (simple and brisk: 10/10) is as easy to form as the one from my old local Caribbean market (fle…….
French fries transcend fashion. Food trends come and go but chips persist as a source of comforting joy, something we all badly need this winter. For many, that will mean sun-gold chips doused in salt and vinegar, ketchup or mayo. But why stop there?
With budgets tight, loaded fries are currently enjoying a bounce as a relatively affordable, filling treat. Last year, Burger King introduced jazzed-up fries (topped with cheese sauce and/or bacon bits), as did several big-name pub chains. In that same period pub chip sales were up 15%, according to…….
These limitations allowed banana bread’s profile to flourish, expanding the synapses tucked inside a pretty simple recipe. As PJ Hamel notes, “Banana-bread recipes down the decades have in common bananas, sweetener, a chemical leavener, some fat and flour. But beyond that they can differ wildly.” And across Caribbean foodways — Jamaica was the first commercial banana producer in the Western Hemisphere — banana bread remains indispensable. My mother’s recipe (simple and brisk: 10/10) is as easy to form as the one from my old local Caribbean market (fle…….
French fries transcend fashion. Food trends come and go but chips persist as a source of comforting joy, something we all badly need this winter. For many, that will mean sun-gold chips doused in salt and vinegar, ketchup or mayo. But why stop there?
With budgets tight, loaded fries are currently enjoying a bounce as a relatively affordable, filling treat. Last year, Burger King introduced jazzed-up fries (topped with cheese sauce and/or bacon bits), as did several big-name pub chains. In that same period pub chip sales were up 15%, according to…….
These limitations allowed banana bread’s profile to flourish, expanding the synapses tucked inside a pretty simple recipe. As PJ Hamel notes, “Banana-bread recipes down the decades have in common bananas, sweetener, a chemical leavener, some fat and flour. But beyond that they can differ wildly.” And across Caribbean foodways — Jamaica was the first commercial banana producer in the Western Hemisphere — banana bread remains indispensable. My mother’s recipe (simple and brisk: 10/10) is as easy to form as the one from my old local Caribbean market (fle…….
French fries transcend fashion. Food trends come and go but chips persist as a source of comforting joy, something we all badly need this winter. For many, that will mean sun-gold chips doused in salt and vinegar, ketchup or mayo. But why stop there?
With budgets tight, loaded fries are currently enjoying a bounce as a relatively affordable, filling treat. Last year, Burger King introduced jazzed-up fries (topped with cheese sauce and/or bacon bits), as did several big-name pub chains. In that same period pub chip sales were up 15%, according to…….
These limitations allowed banana bread’s profile to flourish, expanding the synapses tucked inside a pretty simple recipe. As PJ Hamel notes, “Banana-bread recipes down the decades have in common bananas, sweetener, a chemical leavener, some fat and flour. But beyond that they can differ wildly.” And across Caribbean foodways — Jamaica was the first commercial banana producer in the Western Hemisphere — banana bread remains indispensable. My mother’s recipe (simple and brisk: 10/10) is as easy to form as the one from my old local Caribbean market (fle…….