04 Monday Jul 2016
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Further to my summer eating post, I came across this article in Saveur Mag the other day. I plan to try a whole whack of these babies and thought it would be a nice thing to share. That radish, cilantro and goat cheese one looks amazing, but they kind of all do.
29 Friday Apr 2016
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For those of you who don’t follow the wonderful @WeWantPlates on Twitter, it features (as the name suggests) photos of weird and, sometimes frankly disgusting, ways of serving food that leave you seriously wishing for a plate. Everything from the almost standard roof slates and mini frying baskets, to various shoes, hats, toys, etc. Always good for a laugh (or sometimes a retch).
Anyhow, at the wine awards this week we were served a few snacks afterwards and suddenly THIS thing came around. I don’t know what it’s supposed to be. A jamón volcano with bread stick lava spewing out the top? It didn’t do anything to harm the wonderful jamón attached to it, but it also didn’t do anything to inhance it. So you know… why not just use a plate?
14 Thursday Apr 2016
13 Wednesday Apr 2016
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On Sunday I made my first ever roasted cauliflower. As you can see, it’s not pretty, but man was it delicious. I roasted it with olive oil, garlic and black pepper, then tossed in some grated parmesan cheese. Served it with some short angel hair noodles. And I thought – hey, this is such a tasty way of having more veggies in my diet. Then a couple of hours later I doubled over in pain and ended up in emergency the next day.
Now I know the two incidents aren’t related (or are they?) but I think it’s going to be awhile before I dare to eat cauliflower again.
21 Thursday Jan 2016
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Ever since I first tried the fabulous courgette “spaghetti” at No Kitchen, I’ve been keen on replicating this at home. And so after finding a veggie spiralizer at my favourite kitchen shop Bazar Victoria the other day, I was ready to go (as was my assistant Morcilla). This particular spiralizer is a bit like a pencil sharpener, with two sizes (for courgettes and carrots) and in no time I had a plate full of lovely veggie “noodles”. But what to do with them? I thought they should just be blanched and then have some sauce plopped on them, but most of the recipes I found online said they should be sautéed in olive oil, and then further cooked with a bit of added water. THEN I decided to try a garlicky bacony carbonara – and it was wonderful. The great thing was that all the lovely garlicky bacony flavour was there, but I didn’t end up feeling STUFFED afterwards. This is WAY BETTER than cauliflower “rice”. Recipe coming soon!
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