Restaurant food at home
Life has been kind of busy lately. You can probably tell from my infrequent updates. No excuses, but I’ve been promoted at work and had to travel 100 miles a day to a new base. Luckily, I’m now back at my home base after six months and actually have more […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of my all time favourite foods are scallops. I only ever eat them as a starter though and always want more. This led me to try and devise a main course scallop dish. This is the first version of it. I have a second of a Maldivian curry. This […]
It has been a while since I have posted any starters. It doesn’t give you a particularly balanced dinner party without one. I wanted to create a scallop main course, I still can’t think of one apart from some pasta, chorizo and scallops. Hence I made two scallop starters instead. […]
Some may think this dish sounds an odd mixture of flavours. Cheese, fish and Japanese all in one. Firstly the cauliflower cheese is a delightful clam veloute thickened with cauliflower and cheese. This mellow fishy but distinctive flavour marries beautifully with the Brown Trout. The Brown Trout, along with […]
This weeks taste sensation comes from a recipe I’ve been meaning to make for ages. When I make a risotto at home I like to make a vegetable puree to stir through it. This acts as the creamy thickener rather than cream or mascarpone. It works brilliantly for pumpkin or […]
I love making sauces. I believe they are so important to give a dish the correct balance. I remember Michel Roux wrote an entire book on sauces, well over 100. I’m disappointed to say I never purchased it. Most sauces themselves tend to be a balance of acidity(wine), sour(vinegar) and […]
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