Recipes

Discover expert tips and creative ideas for crafting the perfect Christmas lunch menu, sure to impress your guests with festive flavours and traditions.

There’s something undeniably magical about wild mushrooms. With their earthy flavours and umami-rich flavours, they’re perfect for turning an ordinary meal into something that will impress your guests.

Here’s our best recipes from Drogo’s Kitchen to get you inspired for your Christmas menu.

Discover our favourite mushroom recipes including pickled girolles, stuffed porcini mushrooms, wild mushroom canapes, and more.

Discover our best mushroom recipes featuring the finest wild mushrooms, dried mushrooms, and specialist varieties such as girolles, porcinis, morels, and plenty more. Our fantastic range of mushrooms are the perfect addition to gourmet meals or can be showcased as the centrepiece of a dish. Mushrooms are such a versatile vegetable and are great for cooking with when in season. Browse our top recipes down below, we’ve got everything from hearty Autumnal pies to truffle burgers and plenty more exciting recipes to keep your tastebuds excited.

Veal is prized for its light beef flavour and very tender texture. At Fine Food Specialist, we have many different cuts of veal to choose from, including steaks, chops, cutlets and much more! Make sure to browse our full range of veal products and read on for our guide to buying and cooking with veal. 

Cod is such a versatile fresh fish with a mild, sweet flavour and firm, meaty texture. At Fine Food Specialist, we sell a variety of cuts and cod products such as cod tail fillets, fresh cod supremes, cod cheeks, miso-marinated cod and smoked cod’s roe. Read on for your complete guide to buying cod, and the best ways to cook it. 

We love a good burger here at Fine Food Specialist, and we have a feeling you do too! Burgers are a bit of a passion project for us, which is why you can consider us your one-stop shop when you need to buy burgers. Meat, buns, accompaniments - we have it all! 

Is there anything more comforting than a home-cooked Sunday lunch, enjoyed with family and friends? The focal point of the meal is often a piece of roast meat, and at Fine Food Specialist, we have a wide range of specialist pork, beef and lamb cuts (including many from top breeds such as Iberico and Wagyu), which will transform your meal into something memorable. 

Porcini mushrooms are highly regarded in the food world, especially in French and Italian cuisine. Food connoisseurs around the world extol this mushroom for its incredible flavour and texture. Porcini means ‘little pigs’ in Italian but is also known as king bolete, or ceps in France. The formal name is boletus edulis and in England, they are called penny buns because the tops resemble crusty bread rolls. Their brown caps can range in size from one inch to up to a foot and they have thick white stalks.

Who doesn’t love BBQ season? Smoky grilled steaks, juicy burgers, sizzling sausages… There’s so many options and luckily for you we’ve got all of them covered with our extensive outdoor dining collection. Barbequing is a great way to impart flavour and you can really throw anything you fancy on the barbeque from marinated meats to fresh fish. Grilling can help fish cook faster and can also help create a delicious crispy, charred skin on poultry – there’s so many reasons to get stuck in this season! Discover all your favourites and get inspired by our best BBQ recipes from Drogo’s Kitchen! Get the barbeque out and start grilling up some of these gourmet ingredients…

Wondering what’s in season this March? Check out our handy guide to the best in season produce this month. March signals the beginning of spring and with it a whole new host of exciting vegetables and fruits to experiment with in the kitchen. We’ve got some exciting seasonal delights in store this month, so take a look below to learn more and pick up some tips and fantastic recipes from Drogo’s Kitchen.

During the month of February we see lots of earthy, wintry produce and many beautiful fruits too. Roots and citrus are the main types of fresh produce in February, but there are plenty of other exciting varieties available too. Our selection of root vegetables is diverse and exciting, and will provide ample reason to tuck into many hearty roasts and warming stews. Equally you’ll find that certain fruits such as oranges are hitting their peak flavour. Read on to explore all the vegetables in season and get inspired to try something new.

October brings a selection of comforting autumnal flavours in earthy mushrooms, sweet pumpkins and heartier greens such as chicory and watercress. We stock some of the most exciting varieties of fruit and vegetables available including hard to find Vitellotte purple potatoes, fragrant Muscat grapes and a pumpkin that’s nurtured, heat-cured and stamped with a special marker of quality - definitely not one for carving into a Halloween lantern!

Mushrooms are the perfect way to add depth of flavour to a dish with very little effort, and at Fine Food Specialist, we stock a wide range; from earthy, meaty morels with their distinctive wrinkled caps to delicate golden chanterelles and skinny, silken enoki. Here’s our guide to working with one of nature’s most versatile ingredients.

This exquisite vegetable variety contains a nutty, earthy flavour, making porcinis the perfect addition to a selection of meals.  We love porcini mushrooms at Fine Food Specialist, and head chef Drogo Montagu has created some beautiful porcini recipes over the years which incorporate this excellent mushroom type.

Summer dishes of the light, fresh and delicious variety are well worth adding to your ‘must-try’ list this year. And where better to start than one of these top summer seafood recipes? Our founder Drogo Montagu spent many years working in Michelin starred kitchens, and knows from first hand experience what seafood delights work best. Take a look at these specially selected dishes from Drogo’s kitchen and try something new this summer.