Project Type: Something different
Ham Hock terrine with pea soup and a quails egg
This was a long process which also included a trial run for my xmas day starter, thankfully the only course I was in charge of this year! I found a recipe for ham hock terrine in Delicious magazine which I used for my trial run but altered it slightly for the final product as I …
Beef Wellington
I made a beef Wellington for a meal on Christmas eve, crikey that piece of meat was expensive!! But it is one of the most luxurious meals I can think of after all. I served mine with mashed potato, a red wine sauce and glazed carrots. This will produce a “pink” beef wellington. If you …
Lamb Stuffed Aubergines
It’s been a while, I’m sorry, It was pointed out to me yesterday by Carole that I have not wrote anything for a while.. but December has kept me very busy with gigs and boozing! This Saturday morning however, the child was at grandmas and I had chance to watch a bit of Saturday kitchen …
Butternut Squash with ginger, chilli tomatoes and lime yoghurt
I got a free 40 page recipe booklet in my copy of “Good Food” this week which is a taster of a new cookbook called NOPI by Yotam Ottolenghi. I had a look through and there is a lot of stuff that excites me so you may be seeing quite a few of these in the …
Bacon and Egg pork pie!
An impressive beast of a pie that feeds around 12 people! I made one recently and took on a camping trip and we ate it on the beach. Looks like a lot of effort but it really is not that difficult. Need to make sure I seal the top better next time though as a …
Spiced Black Bean and Chicken Soup with Kale
I have been wanting to make this one for months now after I saw in in BBC Good Food magazine but never got round to it and always struggled to find the black beans! Then I found some in Morrisons. Gave it a go for tea tonight and it is going to become a staple …
Wild garlic pesto linguine with pine nuts
This is a dish I recreated based on a meal I had in Boppard, Germany on my recent holiday. After a few days in Germany I was starting to turn into a sausage.. so went for something a bit different on the lunch menu. I ordered “Penne noodles?! with wild garlic pesto rocket, and fresh …
Cumin and Coriander Lamb
This is one of my fave Chinese style dishes, it’s my take on a dish I had at the Szechuan Red Chilli Restaurant in Manchester when it was on the specials menu, unfortunately it’s not always on the menu so I had to figure out how to make it for myself! I actually took this …
Braised steak with Onions, Mushrooms and Jerusalem Artichokes
What shall I do with these knobbly veggies
GORGE 