Salmon and Goats Cheese Omelette – a review of Eating Well Everyday: I tend to run shy of chef recipe books – I generally find the recipes are too complicated for everyday and too high risk for entertaining. But Eating Well Everyday by Peter Gordon caught my eye – and, breaking my own rule, I was delighted […]
Spiced Beef Casserole with Guinness and Orange
Spiced Beef and Guinness Casserole with Orange: It’s winter. And I have a brand new slow cooker thanks to the lovely people at Crock-UK. I’ve been dying to try it out and the other day I christened it using one of my family’s favourite recipes, a warming Spiced Beef and Guinness Casserole with orange. I’ve […]
Best of British Game Partridge with Pear and Thyme
Partridge with Pear and Thyme for Best of British: We’ve spent the last 5 months visiting various blogs throughout the UK who have been championing their own local produce and cuisine. Literally from Lands-End with Choclette to John o Groats, with Janice at Farmers Girl Kitchen. During that time, you’ve all risen to the challenge […]
Easy Bouillabaisse Recipe at Kitchen Aid Cookery School
Playing Chef in the Kitchen – Bouillabaisse with Kitchen Aid: Like most people I am a real fan of Kitchen Aid small kitchen appliances – mixers, blenders and multicookers. What I didn’t realise, until I was invited along to the Kitchen Aid store on Wigmore Street was that they also make large kitchen appliances (hobs, […]
John Whaite Launches “A Right Royal Afternoon Tea” and “Perfect Plates In 5 Ingredients” at The Royal Horseguards Hotel
Perfect Plates at the Royal Horseguards Hotel: A lot has happened to John Whaite since winning the third series of the BBC’s The Great British Bake Off. Having gained the law degree he was studying for whilst competing in the show, he now runs his own cookery school, has become something of a celebrity as […]
Gratin Dauphinois with the Panasonic CS-894 steam microwave
Simple and Quick Gratin Dauphinois Recipe: The Panasonic CS-894 steam microwave has so many more features than a conventional microwave. It really does speed up the cooking process even with dishes that you might normally expect to need hours in the oven. This year, Spring seems to be rather late, so I’m craving comfort food. […]
Västerbottensost Cheese
Swedish recipes for Västerbottensost with Bronte from Scandi Kitchen: My first encounter with the impossible to pronounce and even more impossible to spell Västerbottensost cheese was a few weeks ago at Kupp. My dining companion was very keen to order the cheese platter because it focused on this unique Swedish cheese and I wasn’t in […]
Blogger cooking challenge – Spicy Roast Lamb
Roast Lamb with Spiced Chickpea: I was challenged to re-create a dish created by Davide de Croci, chef for Millennium’s Bailey’s Hotel using British lamb. His version is shown below. The recipe can be found here. Be careful about the oven temperature – don’t read this as celsius or your pieces of lamb will end […]
Peppered smoked mackerel with dill pollen
Dill Pollen and Smoked Mackerel – a Simple Fusion of Flavour: I made this lunch dish to showcase two ingredients. Some lovely smoked peppered mackerel from John at Delish Fish and Dill Pollen sent to me by David at Global Harvest. I wanted a quick and easy lunch dish, but thought it would be fun […]
Crunchy Raspberry Creams
Raspberry Creams with a Crunch: It is that time of year, when I don’t really want to cook too much. And, the start of the soft fruit season. I particularly love raspberries, probably a throwback to childhood when we seemed to always end up with a bird in the soft fruit cage that devoured the […]