This long weekend was perfect for some experimentation in the kitchen so on Monday I used up the rest of the asparagus (I had sauteed spears with my lamb steaks on Sunday evening), cooking the front half of the spears in lemony butter, removed them from the butter and kept them warm. Then I cooked the chopped stems in the same butter with some veg ( Read more... )

A new month means new dishes at Alimentum so I went yesterday to try some of them. I was told a menu had been created for me (things like this happen when you're friends with the chefs on twitter) so I didn't even know in advance what I would get (or choose from a menu) and that it would turn into a 8-course extravaganza ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I produced food that was worth taking a photo of (or I hadn't taken a photo of before ( Read more... )

It was using leftovers day so I first made a veg stock from a few carrots, spring greens, onions, broccoli stalks and the cauliflower leaves. In that stock I cooked a cauliflower broken into florets, four deseeded tomatoes and two garlic cloves until tender. I blitzed the lot with my stick blender, added some leftover cheese sauce as thickener, ( Read more... )

Spicy marrow soup with runner beans and mushrooms.


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I don't make soup often because it's usually too much hassle and like to eat things that have a bit more of a texture to it but various veg had accumulated and I don't like cauliflower on its own much so I made a stock (onions, carrots, kale, cauliflower greens, jerusalem artichokes), strained the stock, put in the ja's, the cauliflower florets and ( Read more... )

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