I always love an excuse to buy a new ingredient (currently looking for a UK supplier of mahlab for a Claudia Roden recipe) or even better, a new bit of kitchen equipment, so I loved Anthony’s recipe which involved buying a chicken brick way back in August 2016. I wrote about the excitement of this...

When my mum opened my Cooking With Columbo cookbook on Saturday, the first thing she said was, “Ooh, there’s a lot in it!” and I’ve had similar reactions from other friends and family.  I thought I would publish an extract from the book to give folks an idea of what lurks within these pages.  There is...

I have been looking for an Anthony Andrews recipe for ages.  He’s in Columbo: so I was desperate for a recipe to use in the Cooking With Columbo book.  When I found this recipe I was very excited.  But I didn’t have a “chicken brick”.  In fact, I only vaguely knew what a chicken brick was…...