Project Type: Special Occasion
Pork Fillet stuffed with roasted Squash, Chorizo and Pistachio.
This week I decided to see if I could do better than the Masterchef contestants by using the ingredients they were given to create a dish with no recipe in an hour. This is what I came up with using the main ingredients of – Pork fillet, Butternut squash and Kale. Obviously you are allowed …
Dark Chocolate and Cardamon Tart
I have recently bought a book about flavour – it’s like a bible for what goes together, and straight away I picked up on chocolate and cardamon as I really like the taste of cardamon in a dessert. I’d say this one is an aquired taste though so if you don’t like dark bitter choolate …
Baked Aubergine with Preserved Lemon and Yoghurt.
I know I know.. another Aubergine dish! But I do love them! Another one from Olive magazine with a few tweaks that I felt it needed. This is great served as a lunch or a side dish. The recipe in the magazine uses a few strands of saffron to colour the yoghurt but I personally …
Espresso Martini Pannacotta.
Is it a dessert? Is it a coffee? is it a cocktail? No, Its all three rolled into one! I am a big fan of an espresso martini and often substitute a dessert for one in restaurants, but at my little dinner party for 2 this weekend I didn’t have to compromise. I don’t cope …
Green beans with olives and goats cheese.
I cooked a nice meal for me and the other half this weekend, no babysitters so I brought the restaurant to us! I pulled some pages out of my Olive magazine and tried a few new dishes. This one was actually a dish that is served in Little Duck The Picklery and looked really fresh …
Giant Jaffa Cake!
I had a chocolate orange cake on the blog and I have been thinking for a while if I could somehow make it like a big jaffa cake… I had an experiment this week and it works!! Think this is one of the trickiest inventions I have done especially as cake making can go …
Fondant Swede and Celeriac Gratin
If you thought swede was bland and boring.. think again! This recipe is adapted from a Yotam Ottolenghi recipe in the Nopi cookbook – yes him again! I have cooked this 3 or 4 times now and have put my own twist on it by adding celeriac and I have always found it to be …
Sticky Toffee Pudding.
Yes a real one.. not a sponge pudding that has been called a Sticky toffe pudding! That is a major gripe of mine in pubs/restaurants, maybe I should start asking what it is made with before I order as 8 times out of 10 when I order a sticky toffee pudding I just get a …
Cheesy Garlic Mushroom Soup with toasted Brioche Bread.
I needed a light lunch today as I am going out for a big fat curry with the girls tonight and there is not much room ‘mushroom’ in my belly at the moment! ( 8 months into cooking a baby). Looked in the fridge and I have lots of mushrooms so decided to make …
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