Saturday 12th September/Saurday 19th September, 2020 – Recipes (German Plum Cake, German Apple Cake) About 18 months ago I thought I’d found the perfect recipe for a German-style plum cake and I made a post about it with the intention of giving it a go if I couldn’t access the German Bakery on their van’s…
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Food 2020 – Haar at Home (Goan Lobster Box)
Saturday 12th September, 2020 – Haar at Home (Goan Lobster Box) After a lobster box from Côte, it was time to wheel out the big guns in September with a box from Haar. This is a restaurant in Scotland, headed up by Dean Banks, a former Masterchef finalist, who opened the restaurant a year ago….
Food 2020 – Recipes (Ragoût of Crayfish, Girolles, Fregola Pasta, Courgettes and Watercress Cream)
Saturday 8th August, 2020 – Recipes (Ragoût of Crayfish, Girolles, Fregola Pasta, Courgettes and Watercress Cream) Sometimes I get carried away with myself and end up buying stuff that then needs to be dealt with in quite labour intensive ways! A case in point is when the Scandi Kitchen’s repeated adverts for crayfish season prove…
Food 2020 РC̫te at Home (Lobster and Frites)
Saturday 1st August, 2020 – Côte at Home (Lobster and Frites) As people who usually go out to eat quite a lot, I’ve enjoyed doing my own more adventurous than normal cooking at home, but now and again it’s nice to let someone else do all the heavy lifting. A review in the Guardian in…
Food 2020 – Recipes (Easy Seeded Rye Bread)
Saturday 1st August, 2020 – Easy Seeded Rye Bread by Claus Meyer I’d been hunting around for a good rye loaf recipe, preferably similar to the sort of bread found in Germany, but I could only find sourdough recipes while digging around. We have enough animals in this house without acquiring a sourdough starter as…
Food 2020 – The Great British Chefs Cookbook Club (Falastin by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley)
July 2020 – Recipes (Rice with Yogurt, Roasted Cauliflower and Fried Garlic; Sfiha; Za’atar Rolls; Batata Bil Filfil; Prawn and Tomato Stew with Coriander Pesto; Red Shakshuka) Another month, another cookbook (I really hope they’re going to choose one I really don’t want to buy one of these months) from the people at The Great…
Food 2020 – Recipes (Victoria Sponge)
Saturday, 18th July 2020 – Recipes (Victoria Sponge) Cakes are another bete noire of mine, never quite coming out the way I hope. In a fit of optimism, I decided I’d have one more go at what is really quite a basic thing, the Victoria sponge. This has long defeated me, coming out either so…
Food 2020 – Recipes (Traditional Portuguese Duck Rice)
June 2020 – Recipes (Traditional Portuguese Duck Rice) I have long had a fascination with duck rice, having first eaten it in Macau many years ago. Since then I have been trying very hard to recreate it. It’s taken forever to find a recipe that looked even vaguely plausible, with the ones I’ve tried in…
Food 2020 – Recipes (Elderflower Vodka, Elderflower Cordial, Elderflower Fritters)
June 2020 – Recipes (Elderflower Vodka, Elderflower Cordial, Elderflower Fritters) It’s been quite a year for watching the wildflowers around these parts, and with elder (Sambucus nigra, otherwise known as elder, boortree, boontree, borewood, and even dog tree) growing rife along the streamside park that edges our property, and all around the perimeter of the…
Food 2020 – Recipes (Kanelsnurrer a la Meyer’s Bakery)
Saturday 20th June, 2020 – Kanelsnurrer (Cinnamon Swirls) a la Meyer’s Bakery If you’re Danish (or an enthusiastic foodie with an eye on the Nordic food scene) youll have heard of Claus Meyer, the other man who founded Noma, the one many people haven’t heard of, among other things, and who now has a small…
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