One of the great thing about this recipe, except the quality of the chips of course, is you can almost totally cook the chips ahead of time, leaving you with just a minute or so cooking time when they are actually needed. This means you could even have a…
Month: December 2010
Cranberry Sauce – Christmas Recipes
Adapted from Jamie Oliver Ingredients • 500g fresh cranberries or frozen ones, thawed • 2 bramley apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks • 125g golden caster sugar • 1 cinnamon stick dressings / sauces | serves 6-8 This is a simple sauce that goes very…
Bread Sauce – Christmas Recipes
Adapted from © delicious. magazine Ingredients Half an onion 6 cloves 600ml full-fat milk 2 fresh bay leaves 8 black peppercorns A very small pinch of nutmeg 150g fresh white breadcrumbs 25g butter 4 tablespoons creme fraiche – optional METHOD How to make bread sauce 1. Halve an…
Turkey and Trimmings – Christmas Recipes
Turkey (legs removed, boned and stuffed with sausagemeat) http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/roastturkeyandstuffi_71053 Stuffing Do not food process except to cut the onions, breadcrumbs and sage, well you can but make sure you dont puree Kilo of Sausage meat, 4 medium onions (blanched maybe), good handful of sage, loaf…
Salsa
This recipe is taken from Delia Smith’s Summer Collection and has also appeared in Sainsbury’s Magazine (Guide to Fish Cookery). 4 large firm tomatoes, skinned and deseeded 1 fresh green chilli (the fat squat variety that isn’t too fiery), halved and deseeded ½ medium red onion,…
Lasagna Bolognese – Silver Spoon
Serves 4 3 tbs. olive oil 1 carrot, chopped 1 onion, chopped 2-3/4 cups ground meat scant 1/2 cup dry white wine generous 1 cup bottled strained tomatoes 2 tbs. butter, plus extra for greasing 1 quantity fresh pasta dough (200g flour, 2 eggs, salt) 1…
Béchamel Sauce – Silver Spoon
Serves 4 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 2-1/4 cup milk pinch of freshly grated nutmeg (optional) salt and pepper Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour. Pour in all the milk, whisking constantly until it starts to boil.…
Goat’s Cheese and Red Pepper Lasagne
From Waitrose : This lasagne is great for last-minute entertaining or a family supper as it’s incredibly quick to make. We’ve used goat’s cheese, but other varieties can work just as well. Serves: 4 Ingredients 200ml tub crème fraîche 100ml semi-skimmed milk 2 eggs, beaten 4…
Guacamole
Ingredients for 4 people. 4 mild chillies, finely chopped bunch coriander, chopped 2 tomatoes, peeled, seeds removed and finely chopped. salt, to taste 1 onion, finely chopped 1-2 tbsp water ½ lime, juice only 3 ripe avocados Method The simplist way is to put all the…
Cold Coffee Espuma by Ferran Adria
– 325 ml cold espresso – 125 ml heavy cream (33% fat) – 75 g sugar – 2-2.5 sheets gelatine Soak gelatine sheets in cold water until soft. Heat 100 ml of espresso to 60C/140F then remove from heat. Add sugar then stir to dissolve. Squeeze water…
Giunnea Fowl and Beer Casserole
chop guinnea fowl into portions, bone legs wrap in streaky bacon add to very hot pan add mushrooms add whole shallotts add a head of garlic chopped in half cook everything on hight heat to brown and start to caramelise add 2 stock cubes add bottle…
Nigel Slater’s crabcakes with pea purée
Chosen by Nicola Jeal who serves these with a dollop of fresh pea purée. Serves 2-3 300g crabmeat a large stick of lemon grass or 2 smaller ones a thumb-sized piece of ginger 2 spring onions a small hot chilli zest and juice of a lime a…
Razor Clams with Chorizo and Broad Beans
Scott’s razor clams with chorizo and broad beans Serves 4 1kg live razor clams ½ glass of white wine a few sprigs of thyme 3 cloves of garlic, peeled and roughly chopped 1 tsp salt stalks from the parsley 250g broad beans (shelled weight) 60ml olive…
Trout with a Housekeepers Sauce
In a oven dish, season inside gut of the trout, pour some water over top, smear with butter, cover dish with foil, moderate overn 20-25 mins Finely (hand) chop parsley, chives, mint – quantities differ. 4 cloves of garlic A few anchovy fillets – from a…
VW T25 – New electric hook up
New electric hook-up cables and plugs – Fitted the wrong end, dont make my mistake. This is what you should be fitting, a male end on your van. to this you will run a live female one. This makes sense as it would be very dangerous…
VW T25 – Skylight
New skylight due to perished old one which blew off on motorway! THE OLD ONE……… THE NEW ONE……… I had to cut around the inner corners in order to fit it in but the size was a standard one. A sharp stanley knife was enough to…
VW T25 – Original Pictures
This is a blog on fixing up a VW T25 1.9 Caravelle 78ps High Top Camper Van. Bought in November 2008 with a very reliable reconditioned engine fitted in April 2005. The service history etc only starts in May 2004 but all documents seem to be…
Tomato Salad – Jamie Oliver
Ingredients Plum Tomatoes Chorizo sausage Olive Oil Sherry Vinegar Garlic Shallots Fresh flat leaf Parsley FreshBasil Salt and pepper Method: Rough chop chorizo and fry with olive oil until golden and crispy Meanwhile rough chop tomatoes and place in bowl Chop shalllots, basil and parsley and…
Mascarpone & Ginger Cheesecake
Adapted from ‘Books for Cooks’ (Issue 1) taken from Patricia Lousada’s ‘Flavours of the Sun’ Prep time 20 mins Cooking time 30 mins (& allow for cooling) Serves 8 Ingredients For the filling 480g /1lb full fat cream cheese 240g/8oz mascarpone cheese 180g/6oz caster sugar 2 free-range…
Coronation Chicken recipe
Coronation Chicken was invented by Constance Spry and served at the Queen’s Coronation lunch in 1953. Here’s how to make it… Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation. Why not celebrate the occasion by cooking up a feast fit for a Royal……