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.
The other day I was having a slightly dull morning at work and thinking about a load of lamb shoulder I had left over in the fridge. It was all the slightly fattier bits that didn’t look too appetising. I suddenly felt inspired to cycle home, run it all through my mincer and create some lamb burgers. That’s normal isn’t it?
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!
Another find in the Jamie Oliver book were these chocolate brownies. I never usually deviate from my tried and tested recipe - which I’ve actually yet to post on here - but they were delicious and incredibly easy to make.
Someone cooked a delicious Jamie Oliver curry for me last week. I’d gone off him a bit - mostly due to the ridiculously long lists of ingredients required for most of his recipes - but I had a flick through one of his books that’s been sitting on my shelf untouched for years and found this really simple light dinner. I swapped the mayonnaise for hollandaise which went really well.
It was my mate’s 30th the other day so I made him a cake. It came from a book I got from a great little bakery in New York called Amy’s bread. It’s possibly the most anal cookbook I’ve ever used but everything I’ve made from it has always been delicious. I should really put the amazing carrot cake recipe up here but I thought I’d mix things up and try the apple walnut cake with maple syrup icing.
Today we had the first BBQ of the year in a sunny interval minutes before it started chucking it down with rain. It wasn’t exactly a traditional BBQ, but I’d been inspired by a great meatball dish I’d had at a restaurant in Soho called Polpo and decided to try and have a go at making something similar.
People often remark that Indian food is a great way to enjoy vegetarian cooking and that most of the curries made in India are with vegetables and not meat. It’s a fair point but there’s nothing like a lamb curry. This is actually based on a Mauritian curry - made on this years Masterchef final by the winner Shelina Permalloo.
After the spicy curry above I served this really simple refreshing dessert. It’s based on a Jamie Oliver recipe I made ages ago but uses mango as well in tribute to the woman who’s recipe I used for the curry - Shelina - who is absolutely obsessed with the things.
