New favourite. Take simple purple seedless grapes from the grocery store, oil, season and roast. Result is blistered juicy, jammy, nuggets of goodness that taste like wine. Roasted grapes can go in salads, top pizza, oatmeal, be an accompaniment on a charcuterie board, roast next to chicken, and even top ice cream. I used them to top creamy cold Burrata. Cut open the Burrata, season with cracked pepper and lay on the roasted grapes. Slice up baguette crostini and you have a p

Best Meatballs ever, says everyone when they talk about their favourite meatball recipe. These are my favourite for a few reasons. One, they’re easy, using a standard one pound (454g) pack of lean ground beef that you bake before putting them in the sauce. Secondly, they are exactly the kind of texture I like in a meatball, soft but not so soft they fall apart. The extras that make the difference are freshly ground Parmasean, buy a chunk, don’t buy pre-grated and whatever y