Restaurant food at home
For those of you that follow this blog regularly, you will know that I enjoy playing with my food. This is often a necessity if trying to make a tasty dinner out of cheap mundane ingredients. See my latest Instagram post (bottom of page) for evidence of playing with chicken […]
As previously discussed, I think the best thing about the blogging community is finding out new things. Whether its how to make a cronut, a life saving tip for peeling chestnuts or like today just learning about an unfamiliar product. Today I’m going to talk about milk fed lamb. You […]
It’s always a good time of year to look back and contemplate on what has been good or not so good this year. Interestingly my most popular dishes this year are my most popular of all time. Does this mean I haven’t cooked anything good this year? They are: 1) […]
“Iberico Presa?” I hear you ask. It’s quite simple, my local butcher has started getting some more trendy/unfamiliar cuts of meat. These all come from a company called Basco Fine Foods. They are specialist importers from Spain, and even though it all comes frozen. The quality is superb. We’ve […]
This dish of slow cooked shoulder of lamb and fillet is so straight forward to do. It looks great and can be done with pork or beef too. The shoulder is braised for a few hours, the meat is then forked apart and wrapped tightly in cling film. […]
Despite it being 2°C overnight in the UK, I do believe we are going to get an elongated Indian Summer in the next couple of weeks. I thought I’d take the opportunity to blog about this summery dish before the snow arrives. Super simple, bursting with flavour. I love to […]
I wasn’t in the mood for rice or potatoes, but still wanted a starch and texture to finish off this dish. A granola would be perfect I thought, but I’ve never really seen a savoury one. As I make plenty of my own homemade granola, how hard could it be […]
Chocolate fondants are the making and breaking of many a chef. They are so sensitive, I wouldn’t even shout at it otherwise it might sulk. If these are practiced at home with the same oven and method, you shouldn’t have any problems on keeping the lovely liquid centre. Incidentally, these […]
Oeufs a la neige/Iles Flottanes/Snow Eggs/Floating islands to give them their full title in French and English. Whichever you choose to use, they are all a classic and an absolute delight. I’ve been meaning to cook this dish ever since I first saw them years ago, just never got round […]