Restaurant food at home
The old adage of not playing with quality ingredients holds strong in this dish of chicken and morels. Morel mushrooms are actually harder to find than truffles, fresh ones especially. I’ve found them online at Fine Food Specialists in Covent garden, but they are roughly £100/kilo. Ouch. Amazingly though, I […]
This weeks dish is a tale of two halves. The chicken piccata has been adjusted to my own tastes. It is a great midweek dish full of flavour, zing and filling. The potatoes are my latest pomme de terre creation. They do look amazing, and surprisingly tasted as good as […]
The idea of this Moroccan Spiced Chicken and Bulgur Wheat Pilaf emerged from the quite fantastic weather we are having in the UK. The doors and windows are all wide open trying to cool us down a bit. Now apart from a BBQ and salad, I was trying to think […]
I love Japanese cuisine but it does tend to look unspectacular. I’ve seen three michelin star restaurants in Japan and all you get is a different flavoured nigiri after nigiri. Nothing exciting about that. This tests my imagination to create something tasty, colourful and overall look like fine dining to […]
If you read my article on Lameloise, I mentioned the delight of a Bresse Chicken. The only place I have found these in Britain is Harrods. They are about £20 each, but are fantastic. A different treat to fillet steak. I thought about how I could improve a humble bog standard chicken. This […]
A nice midweek dinner. There’s a lot of ingredients but not generally alot of cooking, just an assembly job. If you get time to marinade the chicken great, if not it won’t ruin the dish. Difficulty 1/5 Tomato Sauce: 400g chopped tomatoes 100g Olives Handful basil Splash of vinegar Couple […]
Difficulty Rating 2/5: The alternative roast being the chicken cooked in a 90c oven until the chicken is 60c. This stops any juice coming out of the chicken, bad for gravy but good for the most moist juicy chicken ever. We had many a roast chicken dinner last year in […]
Difficulty Rating: 2.5/5 Getting ahead in this recipe is key. Apologies about the photo it looked a lot more elegant than the above. Ingredients: 2 Chicken Supremes( brined for 5 hours in 8% brine)/ 100g white grapes/ 100ml creme fraiche/ 1 shallot/ 225ml white wine / 150ml chicken stock/ large […]