Restaurant food at home
Having a food blog has many advantages. One, it makes you be more creative and cook better food. Secondly, sometimes offers come along that are too good to refuse. This was one of them. Donald Russell, the UKs premier online meat retailer, asked if I would be so […]
My inspiration for this French Boned Chicken is two fold. I have eaten a slow cooked rabbit dish which looked exactly the same, when I ate it, I couldn’t really recognise what part of the rabbit it was. I’ve now found out. The second was from a new programme on […]
Following on from my last post Pumpkin Veloute and Onion Bhajis, I mentioned I had an inspired main course from Dan Moon of Ston Easton Park. The plate I’d picked out from Dan was horseradish gnocchi, blue cheese and beetroot. I was truly inspired by this, I basically copied his […]
There’s nothing like finding a big box of mixed beetroots to inspire a cook. I absolutely adore beetroot. The standard purple is a little draining on a plate, but the golden and chioggia varieties are a true work of natural art. My favourite way of cooking them is simply by […]
With this post I think I’ll begin with the potatoes. Pomme Dauphine are half mash half choux pastry potato dumplings. You have to deep fry them, but they are super light and a small amount of mixture makes a lot of dauphines! For readers that follow this blog regularly, […]
I wouldn’t normally class a fish pie as Fine Dining so it doesn’t normally grace this blog. This one though was made a little bit differently. The filling has a few different steps, but a normal fish pie filling will be great. The topping however is designed to resemble a […]
This dish came about from the remaining pheasants I had left from last month. Game meats are incredibly lean and dry out very quickly. A good way of keeping it moist I thought would be to marinade it. Pheasants only have a mild game taste rather than the heavy irony […]