Please note that this site is a work in progress, an experiment at best. Hopefully over time things will improve design-wise and the blank spots will be filled in.
Before we explain the idea behind cookery blog, you should probably meet the authors. (Or you can skip all that and read our latest article entitled Poaching eggs.)
John Oxton is a web developer who used to be a chef. He has worked for Marco Pierre White, with Simon Hopkinson and Phil Howard and for his last month in London (John’s that is) for Gordon Ramsay, whereafter he left for the Cotswolds to concentrate on changing his career; something that took several years.
Esther Yates is a 21st Century housewife (which means she has a Dyson) and public relations consultant for her local farm shop. She is also John’s long suffering partner and the reason Cookery Blog started at all.
She is often to be found in the kitchen trying to get dinner ready, whilst trying to tend to the needs of three young and demanding children. It doesn’t help that John will often look over her shoulder and “advise” on where she is going wrong, or, on occasion, simply refuse to eat the results.
The idea
The idea behind Cookery Blog is simple: Esther has a shelf full of recipe books, John has a head full of opinions and often the two collide. Rather than write down a long list of recipes we thought we’d try and document what happens when we take a recipe from a book and alter it to suit our taste and/or budget. That’s all we really know at this stage.
The general plan aside, you can be sure that John will also offer his opinion on anything to do with food, whether you want it or not.
We would like to thank Graham Bancroft for his excellent work whipping Textpattern into shape to run this blog.
If you’ve read this far maybe you’d like to read the latest article entitled Poaching eggs