Chocolate cigar

Filo pastry cigars filled with dark chocolate and roasted hazelnuts.

Udon noodles

Really like these wheat Udon noodles. Accompanied by Piu Piu bird.

A bottle of P. Boutet

Only £15 during the liquidation of Threshers, this is a most enjoyable tipple. I have several bottles for New Year.

Ham and mushroom pasta

Whole grain Mustard, garlic, 1/4 red chilli, thyme, cider vinegar, white wine, salt, pepper, bay leaf, ham.

Sauce:
Flour, butter, milk.

Parmesan to serve.

Ding dong prawns and lambs' lettuce

Insanely hot, a little sweet, and very addictive.

1 fresh chilli, tsp chilli powder, 2 garlic cloves, half lemon, 1 tbsp smoked paprika, salt, 1 tbsp honey, 1 shallot.

Alternative recipe:
1 green chilli, half onion, 2 garlic cloves, half lime, 1 tsp shrimp paste, 1 tsp paprika, 1/4 tsp chilli powder, 1 tsp sherry vinegar, 2 chopped tomatoes.

Chocolate and beer

Prestat Choxi's bitter, cherry overtones can become a little overpowering; but are balanced perfectly by a glug of Cusqueña's malty goodness. [In the interests of science I also tried a regular Bud. And that worked too.]

Crumbed trout and yellow carrots

Fresh bread crumbs, lemon zest, capers, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil, whole-grain mustard, dried chilli, garlic.

Baked for ten minutes, grilled for one.

Rainbow carrots

Yellow carrots from the Very Very Veg Company.

Aparagus and chilli oil

Bend the asparagus until they snap, and shave the lower end. Fresh pepper, salt, chilli flakes, oil, and lemon juice.

Griddle until just soft.

[I was bought some wildly out-of-season Peruvian asparagus (no less.) Normal season April to June.]

Tomberries

Beef and pork meatballs

Tomberries, peeled new potatoes and broad bean salad

Sussex kippers and pea top salad

Pan-fried gurnard and mustard potatoes

Fish pan-fried, skin-side down only, basted in the pan.

Sussex lamb chop and mustard potatoes

Haddock and hasselback potato

Ricotta and quark cheesecake

Golden trout

Have you ever seen a finer-looking trout?

Szechuan 四川 prawns and pea tops

Sussex lamb chop, fine green beans and Jerusalem artichoke

Lamb chops from Middle Farm near Lewes.

Salmon fishcake, kale and crunchy garlic

Prawns and sautéed purple potatoes

Chicken, caper sauce, and broad beans

[UK broad beans in season June to September.]

Pan fried mackerel and chilli jam

Fry fillet skin-down for the duration of cooking, while basting the upper side with a spoon. Salt in the pan only.