This Year, Maybe: From the author of A Gift in December

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This spicy Mexican sopa de tortilla or tortilla soup recipe is undoubtedly one of our best winter soup recipes. Terence began cooking up this wonderful warming Mexican soup after our first trip to Mexico City in the Nineties. He tweaked it a little after a class with the lovely Marilau at her excellent cooking school in beautiful San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where we spent two weeks on the grand tour of the world that launched Grantourismo. Terence combined a few tips from Marilau’s recipe with his old recipe – we actually prefer a spicier tortilla soup to Marilau, so Terence added additional Ancho chiles to his recipe. If you don’t like spicy food, you could leave those out. Although there are few better things than chillies to warm you up on a cold winter’s night. A versatile workhorse,” says Alex Rushmer, the chef at Vanderlyle, a plant-focused restaurant in Cambridge. Peel red or white onions, separate the “petals” on a roasting tray and bake them in a process of “dehydration, caramelisation and controlled burning” at 160-190C (140C-170C fan)/325-375F/gas 3-5 for approximately one hour, until dried and dark brown. Keep an eye on their progress: “They should turn to powder when you squeeze them in your hand.” I absolutely love cooking and more importantly eating. And I love, love, love receiving cookbooks as presents. They are manuals for learning new cuisines and transporting us to faraway places. As well as, if followed correctly hopefully creating some tasty food! An ITV spokesperson said at the time: “Love Island UK will return bigger and better than ever with an extended run in summer 2021,” confirming that the winter series would not be returning in 2021.

Referring to the annual (rowing) Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Other Universities are available. The only book that I’ve already bought and wrapped (which is very organised for me) is Uzumakiby Junji Ito. It isn’t necessarily the first book I’d think of when thinking of cosy Christmas gifts but my brother has been reading a lot of horror, specifically surrealist, so I couldn’t think of a better book to gift him. Uzumaki is the story of a town contaminated with spirals. Ito uses the common and ordinary shape of spirals to create uncomfortable and grotesque imagery throughout the book yet I’d still describe the artwork as beautiful, or at least incredibly impressive. This isn’t a collection I’d recommend to just anyone but definitely for any fans of nightmarish literature. This salmon fillet with colcannon recipe has been a favourite since we first tasted the dish at restaurant Banc in Sydney. The crispy skinned salmon fillet was cooked to perfection, the colcannon (an Irish mash potato) was creamy and rich, and while the red wine sauce seemed an unusual choice, its acidity worked well with a mouthful of the other ingredients. Terence has been making this dish for many years now and it turns out perfect every time. This classic Cambodian fried spring rolls recipe makes a crunchy deep-fried egg roll filled with minced pork, dried shrimp, carrot, garlic, and daikon radish or taro, and seasoned with fish sauce, Kampot pepper, sea salt, and palm sugar. While you can buy them everywhere here in Siem Reap, I prefer to make them at home andlove to munch into the crispy fried spring rolls while they’re still piping hot. We also have a Cambodian fried spring roll dipping sauce recipe to go with them. A fantastic salt alternative, saysGrainger: “It gives another layer, umami and flavour impact, without tasting like pure salt.” In a blender, with a little salt to help the grind, blitz sheets of seaweed (“nori or dulse work best”) into fine dust. “It’s great on fish or vegetable dishes.” Dunn’s River all-purpose seasoning

And here is Oink’s Porky clue, a piggy in the Middle of the grid. I expect some Pink Squares for those who entered PUG, a mistake I often make. The actual definition will be at one end of the clue, not in the middle. As is often in English, the noun and verb have different emphases, en-TRANCE (Charm), and EN-trance (way in)

If you’ve cooked our recipes and enjoyed them, please consider supporting Grantourismo by supporting our epic Cambodian cuisine history and cookbook on Patreon, which you can do for as little as the price of a coffee. Or you could buy us a coffee and we’ll use our coffee money to buy cooking ingredients for recipe testing. Blitz to a fine powder in a blender, store in a dark, airtight container for two weeks, then “sprinkle on anything you want to taste oniony. It’s an awesome seasoning for roasted nuts and would be great over white pizza, or sprinkled on a cheese crouton on french onion soup.” Za’atar This sun-dried, ground Korean chilli, which gives kimchi its red colour, comes in a variety of consistencies and heats, but its “bright, fruity, slightly smoky flavour” makes it a versatile ingredient and table condiment, says Judy Joo, the chef-owner of the Seoul Bird restaurants in London. “I sprinkle it on everything from pizza to veggies,” says Joo. “Store it in your freezer to keep it zesty.” CuminWarm Potato Salad Recipe with Anchovies, Capers, Chives and Celery Leaves That’s Also Delicious Cold I love buying books for my family as they very rarely buy them for themselves and it feels quite nice being the resident ‘book expert’ in my house. My pork Stroganoff recipe makes an umami-rich, melt-in-the-mouth pork Stroganoff. The silky, tender-soft texture of the pork comes courtesy of the Chinese velveting technique, a method that calls for marinating and pre-cooking the pork before stir-frying it. Braised with mushrooms in a richly spiced sour cream-based sauce, my pork Stroganoff takes inspiration from Shanghai’s East-West Haipai cuisine. It’s another of our top 31 winter recipes to cook in January. Serve it with shoestring fries or creamy mashed potatoes and a Russian garden salad. More Stroganoff recipes here, including our classic beef Stroganoff recipe. This classic cottage pie recipe makes the traditional Irish comfort food dish synonymous with hearty Irish farmhouse cooking and it’s another of our top 31 winter recipes to cook in January. While cottage pie is made right across the UK and in Australia and New Zealand, the long history of cottage pie in Irish cooking includes some of the oldest documented cottage pie recipes. Endearingly old fashioned, this Irish comfort food favourite consists of layers of savoury beef mince and vegetables, and cheesy mashed potatoes, which are baked, and served with buttery green peas. Wash it all down with red wine or Guinness. My grandparents were born during the Russian Empire in the land we now know as Ukraine and while my grandfather identified as Russian, my Odessa-born grandmother identified as Ukrainian. Her repertoire included both Russian dishes and Ukrainian dishes and sometimes a fusion of the two. This cabbage dumplings recipe makes a cabbage-filled of the mashed potato-filled Ukrainian varenyky. For a family feast of the kind we shared regularly, make a batch of my baboushka’s Russian pelmeni, a big pot of her borscht soup, some kotleti, stuffed cabbage rolls, a classic garden salad, and perhaps some piroshki.

Our Irish beef and Guinness pie recipe with mashed potatoes will make you four addictive mini meat pies made in ramekins. This recipe was created to use up leftover Irish stew and mashed potato leftovers – or leftover colcannon if you prefer – and is a fantastic recipe to plan on making when you next cook Irish food. Don’t forget to pierce a small hole in the pie lid and brush on the egg wash. Set the timer for 30 minutes, though we found that while our little pies were ready at 30 minutes, they needed a few more minutes to brown nicely on top.Terence has been making Singapore curry laksa since we first started slurping the spicy coconut curry noodle soup in Sydney in the 1980s, at a massively popular ‘Singapore Curry Laksa’ stall in subterranean food court in Chinatown food court. Big bowls of laksa served as dinner on many a cold winter’s night. While Terence has long been obsessed with recreating that original noodle soup we adored (he has 10 different curry laksa recipes in his recipe manager!) this recipe comes courtesy of legendary Sydney chef, Christine Manfield. Don’t be deterred by the list of 17 ingredients. The final result is well worth the effort of pounding your own curry paste from scratch. If you don’t find some winter cooking inspiration below, also browse our collection of 31 Winter Recipes to Cook in August, which we shared during the southern hemisphere winter last year, which has 31 completely different winter recipes to this lot. After eight weeks of dumpings, recouplings and plenty of drama, Love Island 2021 final has come to an end, with the Majorcan villa shutting its doors for another year.

THAI– Homophone (“Reportedly”) for tie=draw (as in a football match). I think “woman” is here to make up the diversity numbers. This pepper steak pie recipe makes a Cambodian beef lok lak meat pie that is inspired by one of Cambodia’s most popular street food-style dishes, served at local eateries around the country. Typically eaten for lunch, but also acceptable for dinner or breakfast, when a fried egg on top of the stir-fried beef is compulsory, lok lak is one of those dishes that is as popular with foreigners as locals. Use Cambodia’s excellent Kampot Pepper if you have some. This is another of our best winter recipe ideas. For my partner, I have Tate Britain’s Visions of the Occult: The Untold Story of Art and Magic by Victoria Jenkins, a strange and beautiful art book in spectacular colour which deep-dives into the Tate Archive; ‘a clandestine depository of the world’s most extensive collection of archives relating to British Art.’ Jenkins ‘reveals the hidden magical worlds of the artists we thought we knew – through witchcraft, parasciences, magical stones, alchemy, […] revealing that occult influences have always been present in artistic practices, if only we choose to see them’. For my mother-in-law who lives on the Southern coast and adores a stomp in the great outdoors, I have Raynor Winn’s inspiring memoir, The Salt Path. The book tells the story of Winn and her husband receiving his devastating diagnosis which coincides with them losing the family home. In response to their lives falling apart, Winn and her husband Moth decide to walk the South West Coast Path.

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The energy drink looks like a pre-freezer or melted Louie-Bloo Raspberry Otter Pop, but it doesn’t taste like one was poured into a Red Bull. It’s a blue raspberry-flavored Red Bull, but its tartness is heavier than an Otter Pop. And, of course, there’s that medicinal aftertaste the energy drink is known for. The blueberry scent I initially sniffed turned into a cotton candy-like aroma as I nursed the can. Last Christmas and new year I read three long novels: Colm Toibin’s The Magician, an epic journey into the soul of Thomas Mann and Germany, Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads, a enjoyable baggy family saga of adultery that immersed me happily in an unhappy family and then for new year, the astonishing Anna Karenina by Tolstoy which I found profoundly moving and which meant my January whipped by as I was really in Russia, my heart breaking worrying about Anna and what would become of her. I’d recommend all three books (and if you love the Russian storytellers, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders is a treat).