Restaurant food at home
Now I’m all for trends and keeping up with fashion in the gourmet world. There are days though, when you discover a classic and realise that what you were served for school dinners, was not how they should have been. These duchess potatoes especially. They are my new go to […]
It’s not often that I just copy a recipe and republish it, but I have on this occasion. This dish is from Heston Blumenthals at Home cookbook. It’s so peculiar that I just had to make it. It is essentially, like all gazpachos, a summer soup. Due to its heat […]
This dish is a quintessential British summer on a plate, not that it has arrived yet! It’s actually two desserts in one so feel free to steal whichever one appeals to you more. The treacle tart is something I’ve been meaning to make for years. While making it I was […]
I’m not so sure if posting such a rich chocolate dessert after easter is such a good thing to do. The reason it came about is one of my eggs was so large it would take me a until christmas to eat it. So after I broke in to half […]
Prawns, beetroot and parmesan may sound a rather strange combination, cheese biscuits with fish and beetroot. As it’s served chilled a lot of the over riding tastes are numbed and the dish works perfectly. I have found a superb trick for the parmesan sable, replacing some of the butter with […]
If you’ve been inspired by the Great British Bake Off why not have a go at this. It was my first attempt at a “proper” pie. I say proper meaning fully encased in pastry. If you don’t want so much pastry feel free to make a “Pot Pie”-pastry on the […]