January 2010

Failed Honey Cake – If you gonna fail at baking best to fail unexpectedly

January 28, 2010

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If you’ve going to fail at something but know half way through it’s going to fail then No Surprises No unfulfilled expectations No Sudden Loss. I say if you’re going to fail make sure you fail at the last hurdle because up until then you’re still full of hope and your naïve status will keep you [...]

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Sauteed Potatoes with the Leftover Pork

January 28, 2010

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Make sure you have some of that bacon and ribs from the Poor Man’s Feijoada just so you can eat these potatoes, because if there ever was anything that should be attached to potatoes is crispy bits of pork and if you are so incline finish it off with a runny egg over it, it [...]

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Refried Beans

January 28, 2010

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Following on from the last post Poor Man’s Feijoada, beans with pork, make refried beans. Soften an onion in oil or lard add your beans adding a little of that saved water from cooking the beans and when they’re very hot mash them until they have the desired texture.

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Poor Man’s Feijoada – Beans cooked with Pork

January 28, 2010

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Feijoada pronouncing the ‘j’ like you would in ‘Jack’ and not the Spanish way of an ‘s’ sound, if you type into the search engine you’ll have lots of pages on examples of Brazilian feijoda with black beans, fresh and salted pork, fresh and dried beef, cured sausages, blood sausages, quite an extensive list of [...]

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A Different Kind of Roast Chicken

January 26, 2010

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There are those like my cousin’s wife who do not like roast chicken because they had it so often as a kid that now as an adult it doesn’t float their boat. In our house I can’t go long without a roast chicken the girls look forward to it and for the cook it provides [...]

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Locanda Locatelli Restaurant London

January 24, 2010

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This week we celebrated Bikerboy’s birthday by returning to Locanda Locatelli’s restaurant with friends and we’ve been looking forward to it since booking the table a few weeks ago. Our first visit was last Spring for my birthday, it was one of our most enjoyable lunches we’ve had for a very long time. The dish [...]

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Mille Feuille For Every Season – strawberries, pears, pineapples, bananas, mango

January 21, 2010

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The title says it all, have the mille fueille any time of year, with any combination of fruit and any cream, traditional custard the crème pâtissière, simple whipped cream, mascarpone and crème fraiche or even chocolate mousse. Mille feuille in Portuguese, called ‘mile folhas’, a thousand leaves, is very easy to make if buying your puff [...]

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From Ordinary Mushrooms to Sublime Mushrooms

January 19, 2010

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This is a delicious dish, an intense earthy sweet mushroom dish which can be used any which way you so wish, lots of flavour for little money. You can add stock to it and turn it into soup or make pasta sauce with it, you can evaporate the juice further and put them on bruschetta/crostini, [...]

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Coconut & Cardamon Soup

January 16, 2010

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This soup came about with the madness of the snow and siege mentally in the shops, people buying everything in sight, at one point I couldn’t get hold of any eggs. I hadn’t been out for while was running out of everything and these were all the vegetables I had left, sweet potato and leeks, [...]

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Miso Noodles – Easy Way To Eat Japanese

January 15, 2010

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It seems the snow is finally thawing and you can feel a sigh of relief from people as I do my weekly shop. Here I am, halfway through the month, supposedly the worst and most depressing month in our calendar. Lack of sunlight and by now we’re fed up with the cold, feeling poorer having [...]

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Skylon Restaurant London

January 13, 2010

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Last Saturday was the third time we had eaten in Skylon at the Royal Festival Hall and our last. Our first meal there was about two years ago for Sunday lunch, we had their roast rib of beef which was delicious, the service was attentive and the view by the window overlooking the river is [...]

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Pear Syrup from Poached Pears – A Syrup Never tasted So Good

January 13, 2010

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This isn’t so much a posting about a recipe because urmmm there’s no recipe but it’s about a Kitchen Accidental that turned into my favourite syrup. I’m not a syrup fan, golden syrup to me is for pouring into recipes and if I had to pick one would be maple syrup over freshly made waffles [...]

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Two Granddads And A Baby – Spinach and Pea Soup

January 10, 2010

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Yesterday Bikerboy and I went to see Gordon Giltrap and Virginia Lu at the Southbank Centre, it was part of his Christmas present along with his new classic Spanish guitar, he’s now into his classic guitar ever since receiving guitar lessons as a present last Christmas. For the years we’ve been together he’s been the [...]

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Dark Milk White Chocolate Cookies – Triple Chocolate Cookies

January 7, 2010

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OK Forget reading the whole post….I just get sucked into details and go blah blah when I like something. I’m starting this posting back to front, I’ve just read what I’ve posted and it’s rather long. Because I don’t want that to get in the way of anyone trying this recipe, I’m just going to [...]

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Let it Snow, let it snow, let it snow

January 6, 2010

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It’s been a little crazy for the UK and we’re not used to this amount of snow and I’m sure those who live with snow knee high every winter must yawn, you’re going to just have to forgive the rest of us. My dad who arrived today from Portugal hadn’t seen weather like this since [...]

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