Sometimes it’s good to be challenged in life. Trying to make a vegetarian gluten free lasagne without pasta is one of those. There are some gluten free lasagne sheets on the market, but quite frankly, they’re disgusting. Hence I thought I’d make my own. It’s a fairly simple thing to […]
Tag: aubergine
Lasagne Pastachina
I saw a well known Italian chef, Francesco Mazzei making this Lasagne Pastachina dish. He serves this up at his restaurant L’Anima in London Town. It’s highly complicated with many steps to create, making your own beef sausages and two different types of pasta. I wasn’t quite in the mood […]
Salmon with Crab Pastillas and Spiced Puy Lentils.
This dish came originally from a starter I had many years ago. I was amazed at how I had a perfectly round salmon fillet rather than a flat piece. I finally found out how they did it and hence this dish was born. The lentils are flavoured with soy […]
Tandoori Pheasant, Spiced Aubergine Caviar and Poppy Seed Potato Cake.
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 […]
Fennel Cured Salmon with Beetroot Jelly and Pesto Goats Cheese.
After my travels over the last two weeks it was time to get back to cooking. This dish is inspired from the Pollen Street Social (review to come) that we visited on Thursday. This is the starter with the main to follow next week. This is nothing more than half […]
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Fish and Spiced Chips with a Harissa Tahini dressing.
I rustled this one up for a mid-week supper. Rather than do ordinary chips, veg, dressing I decided to go with a Middle Eastern theme. I basically made roast chips, salted the aubergine to enhance the flavour and to marry all the spices together made a standard tahini dressing with […]
Aubergine, mozzarella and basil salad
This tastes delightful and is so simple to make, but scores lots of brownie points. I’ll try it with a burrata another day and report back. Ingredients: 1 Aubergine, 1 mozzarella ball, left over or any pesto. 1) Cut aubergine into 1cm slices( i chose to salt them for half […]