Spread the loveSlurping your food and drink loudly is seen as rude in some cultures but in tasting beverages like wine, tea and coffee, it’s quite essential as the oxygenation releases the flavours and aromas. Up to this point, I have never had much of an occassion to taste more than one coffee at a…
Spread the loveMy new new thing all this summer was making ice cream, with lots of summer fruits and experimenting with other strange flavours. One of the favourite recipes was making Strawberry Ice Cream. The first time I made it was such a lovely surprise as it produces a delightful pink coloured concoction and it…
Spread the loveDo you know the feeling like you have won the lottery when you discover an amazing new ingredient? There is this unrational thrill that a foodie gets when finding and loving a fab tasting new ingredient and my newest one is nduja, which I tasted here. An email popped into my inbox inviting…
Spread the love PrintChocolate dipped orange shortbread biscuits Ingredients100g (3 ½ oz) Kerrygold butter, softened and diced, plus extra for greasing 150g (5oz) plain flour, plus extra for dusting 50g (2oz) caster sugar 75g (2½ oz) dark chocolate, broken in to pieces The grated zest of one orangeInstructionsMakes 15–20 biscuits Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°f/Gas…
Spread the love PrintGrilled spring lamb cutlets with anchovy, olive and caper butter served with buttered courgettes Ingredients2 tbsp olive oil 12 lamb cutlets Salt and pepper For the flavoured butter: 125g (4 ½ oz) Kerrygold butter, softened 1 tbsp parsley, chopped 2 anchovies, chopped 0 capers, chopped 6 black olives, pitted and chopped A…
Spread the loveThis is a recipe we cooked at the Atelier Des Chefs, a recipe that was created by Andre Dupin for Total Greek Yoghurt.It is a very fresh dish and will be very easy to make for dinner parties as you can prepare most of it before hand. This serves 6 people. Ingredients 12…
Spread the loveI don’t usually like celebrity cook books as they are usually not written by the celebrity and the recipes mostly don’t work. (…Sophie Dahl) After all the publicity around Gwynnie’s new book, Notes from my Kitchen Table, we had to try at least one of them. This is a really easy and quick…
Spread the loveIf you have been following the new season of Masterchef, Yotam Ottolenghi was featured in a recent episode where the contestants had to cook from his vegetarian recipes. I have listed the recipes below here. Sometimes Ottolenghi recipes are a bit complicated and uses a lot of ingredients, the end results is always…
Spread the loveThis was one of the recipes we cooked at the Masterchef Cookalong at the recent BBC Good Food Show. We made this recipe within the 30 minutes, except for the crackling as we didn’t have enough time for that. It is much simpler than I expected and the caramel is a deliciously fragrant…