I'm not a great lover of Valentine's Day. I usually just cook a Valentine's meal at home, perhaps something a little more special than usual, and do everything in my power to avoid going to a restaurant on Valentine's Day. I remember once when I was...

Experimentation is always fun, as long as you keep your mind open, your ideas flexible and some degree of control over what you're doing. If you see something's not quite working out, why not change direction? This is what I did with this venison (and...

Early Spring, with it's constantly changing moods, can bring about a melancholy in me. I have to remind myself that life isn't just about bright sunshine and balmy Summer evenings; that we need the rain, wind and grey moments too. I am impatient for the...