Food Adventures with James Brooks

Recipes

Blackened Broad Beans

This is the most simple, yet delicious broad bean recipe you're likely to find.

Outdoor Cooking

Smoked Full English With a Twist

I mean, you would think that the twist was cooking most of the elements on a smoker - but there's more to it than that!

Community

Need to Lose Some Lockdown Weight?

Hi 👋 my name is James and I am obese.

Outdoor Cooking

Smoking Meats & Making Bread on the BBQ!

When the weather is fine it's the perfect time to go camping, smoke some meat, and make bread on the BBQ.

Recipes

Rum & Berry Glazed Sausages

Sausages will never be the same

Cow Milking & Feasting Farmers

This week's food adventure is ALL about celebrating dairy! I had the privilege of christening my new Jeep roof tent staying at Hollis Mead Organic Dairy in Dorset. This episode is full of new experiences, a bit of disaster, but as ALWAYS, amazing food! Take a watch, enjoy, and please

Cooking Tips

The 3 Habits of a Freestyle Cook

Stop wishing. Start taking on the habits of a freestyle cook.

Outdoor Cooking

Why Do You Always Cook in the Same Place?

Time to mix it up

Recipes

Creamy Roasted Tomato Pasta

...tomato season is here!

Recipes

Chef Ed's Dirty Crab

Yup...you read that right.

Cooking Tips

West Country Coffee Ceremony?!

Inspired by Ethiopia

Recipes

Maple Butter Carrots

Below is an excerpt from the NEW BOOK I am writing about salad. If you're subscribed you'll get sneak peeks! I’d love to know your feedback as I develop the salad element recipes. Drop a comment, or hit reply! Carrots are under-appreciated. They're so much more than something you

Cooking Tips

Fixing Your Bland-Ass Greens

If there's one thing that we millennials struggle with when it comes to cooking...it's veg. Our parents handed us down the most terrible veg cooking techniques. BoilingSteamingMICROWAVING?!No wonder you don't eat your bloody greens. There's more to life than this! Veggies are beautiful, they're delicious, they're life-giving. You

Recipes

Breakfast Noods

Noodles for breakfast?! If you’re a white British dude like me that thought probably horrifies you. But why? As part of my food adventuring, I am doing my best to bust my way out of the box that my upbringing has put me in. This is the very reason

Outdoor Cooking

The Ultimate Outdoor Cooking Adventure

& 11 Essential Tips

Opinion

Make Salads Great Again

...if they ever were great in the first place.

Outdoor Cooking

Minimal Outdoor Cooking Kit

Let's get you started with cooking outside!