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Alpine Mushroom Ragù

Sat, 14 Aug 2027 00:00:00 +0000

We’d driven a road with more hairpins than I could count, parked up where the air was thin and the evening came in cold off the rock, and what I wanted was something dark and slow and warming. No butcher for miles, but a roadside stall had mushrooms the size of my hand. This is what they became.

Buckwheat Galettes

Thu, 08 Jul 2027 00:00:00 +0000

A woman at the market in Cancale sold galettes off a hotplate the size of a dustbin lid, folding each one into a neat envelope with a flick of a little wooden rake. I watched her for an embarrassingly long time, bought two, then went back to the van determined to get close to it. This is close. Hers were better.

One-Pan Skye Fish Stew

Fri, 25 Jun 2027 00:00:00 +0000

We bought the fish off a man at Portree harbour who’d landed it that morning and seemed faintly amused that we were cooking it in a van. This is the stew we made that night, rain on the roof, all the windows steamed up, the best kind of cosy.