Super-easy, even if it does take a week.
Make a brine, put some brisket in it, forget for a week and then simmer it. How hard can it be?
I don’t wear Wellington boots and I don’t like pastry that much so . . .
This is similar to beef wellington but with lovely crispy prosciutto crudo on the outside instead of pastry.
Any excuse to use nuoc cham and rare beef
Use any salad you like - we are weird in Europe in that we make a salad from veg and variations on lettuce and then add a few herbs whereas in other parts of the world herbs are the salad. Tabouleh in the Middle East for example isn't parsley in salad, it's parsley as salad.
Everyone thinks their recipe is the best.
But they’re wrong. This is. Well, it might be...
No. No I don’t know why it’s called that, and I don’t care – google it if you care.
but whether or not you ever find out why it’s called that, just make it: It’s astonishingly tasty Thai Surf’n’Turf!
“We don’t have this in Mexico, it’s an American thing. But if we did it would be like this . . ."
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off
...so we went to buy some and saw an amazing bit of beef!
We decided to have a roast but not a roast and went back to the old Bradford spring/summer favourite; crushed potatoes.
This is a truly beautiful thing.
Look at the previous recipe (salt beef) about a week before you want a sandwich. Yeah, I know.
Why has the way we buy meat changed so much?
There is a recipe here, but I want to talk about how inaccessible even “cheap” cuts are becoming
