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Chilled Pea Soup and Cured Salmon.
This starter will have your guests purring. It is fairly simple to make, but the flavour and temperature contrasts will soon have you realising that you haven’t made enough. It is just a simple pea...
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Pork with Lager Sauce and the best mash ever.
I love making sauces. I believe they are so important to give a dish the correct balance. I remember Michel Roux wrote an entire book on sauces, well over 100. I’m disappointed to say I never...
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Fennel Cured Salmon with Beetroot Jelly and Pesto Goats Cheese.
After my travels over the last two weeks it was time to get back to cooking. This dish is inspired from the Pollen Street Social (review to come) that we visited on Thursday. This is the starter with...
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Liquid Ravioli, Celeriac Crumble, Chicken, Parmesan and Tuffle Foam.
Part of this dish came from leftovers, the other part inspiration from my travels. At Pollen Street Social I had a superb fish dish with celeriac crumble. I googled this and couldn’t find a recipe...
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Osso Bucco with a Pearl Barley Risotto.
Osso Bucco literally translates as “Bone with Hole”, this is quite obvious from the photo. The bone is filled with marrow and over slow cooking the marrow melts into the sauce. This cut is...
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Roast Guinea Fowl with Petit Pois a la Francaise.
Unfortunately we can’t eat Beef Wellington’s and White Chocolate fondants everyday, so on the days of eating much healthier food it just means we have to try a little harder in order for it to be...
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Beef Short Rib, Pommes Anna and Pickled Beetroot.
It’s quite ironic that these are called “short” ribs when they are much larger than pork ones. There are various different cuts of beef short rib, but if you have a nice butcher they will cut the...
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Sage Stuffed Pork Fillet, Chorizo Scotch Egg, Apple and Mustard Sauce.
This dish is a perfect midweek treat, the only difficult part is making up the Chorizo scotch eggs. They can be quite fiddly, but once you’ve mastered the first the rest are easy. The entire dish of...
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Saffron Mash, Homemade Cumberland Sausages, Pea Veloute and Truffle Carrot...
Ok, I thought I’d give you the full title of this rather than simply calling it Bangers and Mash. Does the humble sausage have a place in a fine dining blog? Well, there are always things that can be...
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Truffled Parmesan Mousse.
This truffled parmesan mousse came from Saturday Kitchen. Hosted by James Martin, who also provides the in-flight meals for my airline, and his guest Alexis Gauthier. It is fair to say in our...
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Cajun Lamb, Boulanger Potatoes and Warm Lettuce.
This cajun lamb and boulanger potatoes is a great summer dish. It can be cooked in the traditional way or on the BBQ. This dish has the novelty of cooking the lettuce. This just adds a little flavour...
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Roast Partridge, Squash Puree with Wild Mushroom Essence.
This is my first game posting of the year. Roast Partridge is good place to start for anyone who is anti-game as it’s very mild tasting. Pretty much like a good chicken. They are a perfect portion...
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Chicken Katsu Kiev
What on earth is chicken katsu kiev I hear you cry. Well, chicken katsu is one of our favourite dishes from Yo Sushi. It is simply crumbed chicken goujons with a Japanese curry sauce, which is...
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Duck a l’Orange
Strictly speaking this isn’t a classic Duck a l’Orange. I don’t think I’d ever eaten one as I have visions of it being overly sweet and orangery like a lemon chicken from the Chinese is. How wrong I...
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Pumpkin Veloute, Cod and Onion Bhajis
I’ve been asked to showcase a couple of Dan Moon’s (see below) recipes. Dan has taken over as head chef of Ston Easton Park, a most majestic country estate in the South West, lying on the edge of the...
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Rose Potatoes and Chicken Piccata
This weeks dish is a tale of two halves. The chicken piccata has been adjusted to my own tastes. It is a great midweek dish full of flavour, zing and filling. The potatoes are my latest pomme de terre...
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Duck a la Bigarade and How to prepare Artichokes
How could I resist some plump looking artichokes in the supermarket the other day. Well, as they are a faff I can quite easily look the other way. I thought they can’t be that difficult to prepare...
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Roast Chicken with a Morel and Three Peppercorn Sauce.
The old adage of not playing with quality ingredients holds strong in this dish of chicken and morels. Morel mushrooms are actually harder to find than truffles, fresh ones especially. I’ve found them...
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Guinea Fowl
I’ve been quite quiet recently on the blogging front, no real reason except life has been really busy. I’m spending a lot of flying days away from base at the minute. Which means when I do get home...
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Alternative surf and turf
I must confess that I have no idea where surf and turf originated. As if a steak dinner wasn’t expensive enough, why not throw in half a lobster to bump up the price a bit. I would be inclined to...
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