Slow-Roasted Lamb Shoulder with Pomegranate and Sumac

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000

There are roasts you stand over and roasts you simply trust, and lamb shoulder is firmly the second kind. Where a leg wants careful timing to stay pink, a shoulder asks only to be wrapped up and forgotten for an afternoon, at the end of which it surrenders into soft, dark, intensely savoury shreds. This version dresses that richness in the bright, sour flavours of the eastern Mediterranean: sumac, pomegranate molasses and a final shower of fresh herbs and ruby seeds. The clever twist is the contrast, taking something deeply rich and slow and cutting through it with sharp, almost zinging acidity so that every mouthful resets your appetite for the next.

Harissa Roasted Cauliflower with Tahini and Pomegranate

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

1 In praise of the brassica that finally got its due

For most of my childhood, cauliflower meant one thing: boiled into submission and drowned in a cheese sauce as an apology. It took me an embarrassingly long time to discover that this is a vegetable built for high, dry, ferocious heat. Roast it hard and the florets caramelise, the edges char, and that sulphurous boiled-cabbage smell turns into something nutty and sweet. Cauliflower stopped being a punishment and became, genuinely, one of my favourite things to cook.

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Slow-Roasted Lamb Shoulder with Pomegranate and Sumac

Harissa Roasted Cauliflower with Tahini and Pomegranate

1 In praise of the brassica that finally got its due