Unripe or green almonds are one of those earliest ingredients after the winter where anything green and fresh seems exotic and delicious....

Every reference to gut microbiome health mentions yoghurt and cultured dairy as an important part of a balanced diet, which it definitely...

Kumquat Achar Hot and sour condiment This recipe came about from receiving a glut of round kumquats and having not finished the last two...

Melon and rose teacake This uncooked rose and wild strawberry conserve is an old trick from the moorcock inn. We had plenty of wild...

Clementine/Mandarin kosho. This is a bastardised recipe adapted from the Japanese condiment yuzu kosho, while it doesn’t really represent...

Laverbread This is one of my favourite condiments in my recipe book. Its based on a Japanese preserve called tsukudani, which comes from...

Jamu is a health tonic which is comes from Indonesia, its popular among the health crowd for its antioxidant and inflammatory benefits....

At the Moorcock we made butter every week. with the exception of Jerusalem artichokes we used our own cultured butter for all our...

Lemon curd Like most people I always associated lemon curd with England, it is a quintessentially British conserve. Unfortunately while...

Every country makes fried chicken, and they all do it a little differently, They are all delicious. The major differences are marinades,...

Whipped ice cream The easiest ice cream recipe I know. So easy and so adaptable. It requires no machines, I recommend a stand mixer for...

Cooked hams and corned meat There are many ways to cure meat, I find the best way to cure meat you are going to cook afterward is in a...

Mustard Home made mustard is a bit of a passion project as it is available everywhere, not especially expensive, its pretty good and for...

To most people who will read this you will have heard of Dashi and associate it with instant Japanese cuppa soup. You are not wrong, but...

As your pantry begins to fill with preserves and home made items, it will becomes clear that the quality of the ingredients you are...

If you have a plum tree near you this is a good example of what to do with the glut, its exciting followed by a huge mess, the plums are...

Another workhorse recipe for the Moorcock Inn, this started as a warm sauce to serve with wild mushrooms, tweaked a little to became...

The longest running dish on the moorcock menu, crispy smoked potatoes. The most requested recipe for the blog. We received poems even an...

this recipe comes as an adaptation of a clafoutis recipe, I once worked with a dyslexic pastry chef who one day mixed up the numbers on...

Salt pickling vegetables. For those of you unfamiliar with fermented vegetables it seems like a daunting path. Filled with risks and bad...