The Best Roast Chicken
This recipe is from the Delia Online Cookery SchoolDelia Online Cookery School, Chicken, Easy Entertaining, Sunday roastMethodBegin by taking the chicken from the fridge about an hour before you intend...
View ArticleRoasted Roots with Herbs
Since oven-roasted vegetables in the 'Summer Collection' were so very popular I simply had to do a winter version.Here it is and once again it's a winner for entertaining, not least because all the...
View ArticleRoast Ribs of Aberdeen Angus Beef (with a Confit of Whole Garlic and Shallots)
For those underwhelmed by turkey, Christmas is a time to splash out on a really good, well-hung joint of the best Aberdeen Angus.The confit (see related recipe below), is superb to serve with it and is...
View ArticleButtered Leeks
This is my favourite way of cooking leeks – very gently, in their own juices and served as a vegetable, particularly at the end of winter when there's not an awful lot else available.This recipe is...
View ArticleEliza Acton's Oven-baked Apple Sauce
I would not have believed apple sauce could be so much improved by following Eliza Acton's recipe from her book published in 1845.I sometimes leave the peel on the apples but I think that is a personal...
View ArticleRed Onion Marmalade
Red Onion Marmalade is served with Delia's recipe for Pot-roasted Beef in Red Wine - see recipe belowThis recipe is from Delia Smith’s Winter Collection. It has also appeared in Sainsbury's Magazine...
View ArticleRoast Shoulder of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary with Redcurrant and Mint Sauce
Shoulder of lamb provides the very sweetest meat of all for roasting.Although there is more fat, its presence, which is conveniently interspersed between layers of meat, could not have been better...
View ArticleGlazed Baby Turnips
Baby turnips about the size of golf balls are creamy white with leafy green tops, and usually sold in bunches in the summer when they are in season.Serves 4Sides, Sunday roast, Root Vegetables,...
View ArticlePepper-Crusted Fillet of Beef with Roasted Balsamic Onions and Thyme
30 Minutesto cookThis is one of the easiest ways I know to serve four people something special very quickly and very easily.If you have a first course and a pud, there is enough for six. It goes really...
View ArticleRoast Ribs of Traditional Beef with Yorkshire Pudding and Horseradish, Creme...
I still think the roast beef of old England, served with meaty gravy, crisp Yorkshire pudding and crunchy roast potatoes is not only one of the world's greatest meals, it is something the British do...
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