Restaurant food at home
How could I resist some plump looking artichokes in the supermarket the other day. Well, as they are a faff I can quite easily look the other way. I thought they can’t be that difficult to prepare though, so why not. The sauce a la bigarade is a more […]
Happy New Year everyone. It is the season to eat lighter food, so this is a perfect opportunity to roll out one of my favourite fish dishes. This dish is packed full of many different flavours making it incredibly satisfying. The crust is made ahead and rolled between two […]
It’s not often that I just copy a recipe and republish it, but I have on this occasion. This dish is from Heston Blumenthals at Home cookbook. It’s so peculiar that I just had to make it. It is essentially, like all gazpachos, a summer soup. Due to its heat […]
Lomo saltado, if you didn’t already know, is a Peruvian dish. It is generally served as a beef stir fry with onions, peppers etc. To change it around, I basically put all of the stir fry ingredients into a marinade. Marinaded the beef for a few hours and served it […]
Strictly speaking this isn’t a classic Duck a l’Orange. I don’t think I’d ever eaten one as I have visions of it being overly sweet and orangery like a lemon chicken from the Chinese is. How wrong I was. The sauce is very simple to make but if you […]
Firstly, this tomahawk steak is without doubt, extravagant. This cut of beef has recently arrived in the UK, and they are £25 each. I’ve seen them in the US for a while. It is simply a bone-in rib of beef. It weighs in at around 40oz or well over […]
Eccles Cakes are a bit of an enigma. Nobody actually knows their true origins except that they have been sold in a town called Eccles(Greater Manchester) since 1793. They were traditionally made with flaky pastry, I believe a more modern interpretation lends itself to puff though. These are found in […]