Dried porcini

What a wonderful thing these dried bits of cardboard are! Really, put some in your cupboard. You can rustle up a risotto with barely anything in the house and on Sunday I transformed my pretty good lamb stew into a wonder stew with a handful of porcini. It really deepened the flavour.


For good stew recipes see Elizabeth David's French Provincial Cookery and Jamie Oliver's Jamie's Dinners. And for lovely pots, try Divertimenti which is I think where mine came from - a present from Will.