I wanted to make a Christmassy dessert the other day but with most people having a bit of a love-hate relationship with actual Christmas pudding; I thought I’d make the generally more popular chocolate fondants and then disguise them to look like traditional figgy puddings.
My mate Jeff at work as good as forced me to make something for the Comic Relief Christmas fair. I decided to make biscotti and put them in little cellophane bags for people to buy as presents. I actually really enjoyed making (and eating) them, but next time I think I’d aim not to still be baking at 2 in the morning!
For some stupid reason I’ve signed up for a 10K ‘survival of the fittest’ obstacle course tomorrow. In an attempt to build up some energy reserves and inspired by a book I read called ‘Born to Run’ in which nomadic Mexican super-runners fuel themselves mostly on Frijoles; I thought I’d make some. I also had some delicious Frijoles from Wahacca the other day and managed to find a recipe on their blog.
I had a delicious cheesecake yesterday at a place in Hoxton, which reminded me that I never got round to posting the recipe for the ones I made ages ago. In fact I’ve got a whole load of things that need posting. I’ll try and get my act together and get them up here soon.
In contrast to Heston’s chilli I made a while back which took about 3 days, this recipe from Nigella is incredibly quick, very simple and tastes great. In fact a couple of very nice Australian’s who visited a while back liked it so much I promised them I’d put up the recipe for them. Sorry it’s taken me about 2 months but here you go!
This is a bit of a cross between a salad I made on my cooking course and one I once ate in a restaurant. I’ve never made praline before but it came out spot on. Just crunchy enough to give this salad great texture.
Sorry for the delay in posting anything on TableTurner - it’s been a really busy couple of months and I’ve hardly had any time to do any cooking. I have however been doing a cooking course, so I have lots of exciting things to try out. But for now, here is a really simple and delicous paella recipe - a great dish for when you’ve got loads of people coming over.
After a long period of miserable weather the sun finally came out today and gave me the chance to use the BBQ. I thought I’d try this Jamie Oliver recipe which I stumbled across the other day.
In celebration of the bank-holiday last week I slow roasted a whole lamb shoulder for my family. It’s actually one of the easiest things you can possibly cook and results in really tasty, tender and succulent meat.
I spent about 2 hours last night following a pasta recipe that to be honest with you was nothing that special. Tonight I rustled this up in about 15 minutes with some leftover pasta dough and some things I found in the fridge and it was way better. In fact it was delicious!
