Restaurant food at home
I don’t know what many people would exactly call this lamb pastilla/pie/baklava/pasty, it doesn’t really matter. A pastilla is traditionally made with pigeon, but I don’t see why I can’t use anything else I like. It then sits alongside a tagine to offer a texture contrast. They are usually […]
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 […]
I’ve been quite quiet recently on the blogging front, no real reason except life has been really busy. I’m spending a lot of flying days away from base at the minute. Which means when I do get home there are loads of jobs to do and dedicating much of it […]
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 […]
As much as I like playing about in the kitchen, it is so gratifying to create equally delicious food in next to no time. The most time consuming part of this duck and hummus dish was peeling the squash. Most dishes these days go a little further than meat […]
My new favourite thing is to crust fish. Whether that be with a beer batter, tempura or breadcrumbs I don’t think you can beat a crust followed by lovely light fish flesh. As you may know from following the blog, we are avoiding gluten, so a nice floury or breadcrumb […]
I was approached by www.travelsupermarket.com and asked if I would like to enter their current Holiday Flavours competition/campaign. It essentially focuses on the great dishes we discover when on holiday. The competition is open to everyone without a blog too. All you need to do is post a photo of your favourite […]
It’s not often that I keep things completely simple. The time to do this is when using great ingredients. A rib of beef is the ultimate roast in our house. The textural contrast of the crispy outer to beautiful succulent red inners is amazing. The aromas in the kitchen as […]
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 […]