Grandma's English Recipes

Decanting is a strange word to many people. Some do not even know what it means exactly. Taking the sophistication out of it, decanting literally means pouring the wine from the bottle to a special glass container. This is done in order to expose the wine to oxygen and enrich it. What is the meaning [...]

The first thing you need to do when deciding to create your own Herb Garden is to decide on the size of the plot of land you want to use. This will depend on what herbs and how much you want to grow. Unless you are an experienced gardener or a herb fanatic don’t make [...]

Ordering wine in restaurants is an essential step in ‘enjoying your dining experience. You will find that there ‘are two types of restaurants serving wine: simply, those ‘that have a poor wine service and poor wine selections, ‘and those that provide a knowledgeable and helpful wine ’staff, and stock favorable wines.’

When to debone a fish can depend on your preference. You can either debone a fish before or after cooking it. As for myself, I’ve found it easier to debone a fish after it has been cooked, but then again, I usually find it more enjoyable to eat a fillet that has been deboned before [...]

Of all the tools and utensils used in the kitchen today, it is probably the knife that rewards the most careful selection. When you consider it, a knife is an extension of your hand. To fillet, slice and chop requires manual dexterity. If a knife allows you to move and handle your ingredients in a [...]

The assigning of names to coffee roasts can seem a bit illogical if not confusing at times, but when coffee roast names first began to emerge within the coffee industry, their application was based, to a small degree, on fact. For example, both the French and Italians had (and still have) a tendency to roast [...]

There are over 700 different cheeses produced in Britain. Cheese can be made from lots of different types of milk, such as buffalo milk, sheeps’ milk and goats’ milk. Most of the cheese eaten in the UK is made from cows’ milk. To make cheese, milk has to be separated into curds which are the [...]

The Sunday roast is perhaps the most common feature of English cooking. The Sunday dinner traditionally includes roast potatoes accompanying a roasted joint of meat such as roast beef, lamb , or a roast chicken and assorted vegetables, themselves generally roasted or boiled and served with a thick gravy. Yorkshire pudding and gravy is now [...]

Although spices have been part of the human diet for millions of years, recent research has discovered that they can also benefit health. Spices, which are made from buds, bark, fruits, roots, or seeds of plants, can keep their active ingredients for months or even years. They contain phytochemicals which are referred to as phytonutrients. [...]