This has to be one of the quickest recipes to date, but it’s nourishing and comforting without being too heavy, and it takes as long as a scallop to cook, which really is quick. I served it as a starter before a main course of my Easy Homemade Sushi, and it went down a [...]
Archive for February, 2012
24 Feb
The Goose that laid the Giant Egg.
I was given three lovely Goose Eggs, by my friends at Pitmans Farm to try after enquiring what they tasted like. Two of them were slightly bigger than a duck egg, but one was massive at least double the size of the others. I’m very fortunate to have some wonderful foodie friends who are proud [...]
24 Feb
Smoked butter becomes something amazing!
I’m sceptical about a lot of things in life, but am always willing to be surprised, as I find myself by the whole twittering business. I’ve found it a great way to find interesting and likeminded people who are into food and writing about it. There seems to be a rich vein of talented food [...]
19 Feb
Mutton dressed as lamb?
I always value leftovers, they can quite often be the best part of cooking, and I can get very excited by the prospect of cooking with something as wonderful as the mutton leftovers from the previous post. Shepherds Pie is a family favourite of ours, and so it was the obvious choice for the mutton. [...]
17 Feb
An afternoon BBQ mutton shoulder
I was given a wonderful shoulder of mutton from my friends at Pitmans Farm with the caveat that it was one of their older sheep, and would take a lot of cooking, so I thought what better way to treat this large hunk of meat but cook it low and slow on the hot smoker [...]
12 Feb
From Beast to Beauty Part 2
A Devon Hogs Pudding might not win any beauty contests, it’s a cooked but not browned pork sausage packed with Groats, (oats used in Devon) with lots of pepper. It’s a traditional pudding that I’d not tried until recently, and is usually sliced and fried as part of a Fry Up to be proud of. [...]
8 Feb
From beast to a beauty
These cod roes, are certainly not the prettiest of ingredients, but for me they are a wonderful seasonal treat, that would normally be wasted. Given a cure for a few hours with a handful of sea salt, and then cooked for a few minutes in boiling water, and smoked over beech and apple, they make [...]
5 Feb
A protein packed start to the day.
It still surprises a lot of people who find out that I didn’t eat meat for a very long time, 14 years to be precise, obviously meat is a big part of my life now, but back in the day, I always had need for a quick protein hit, after working out or a physical [...]
1 Feb
Smoked Chilli Chocolate Cake
I’m always looking for an opportunity to push my culinary experience, and when I heard on the grapevine (from Grazing Kate) that there was to be a Clandestine Cake Club meeting in Devon, I had to get involved. As I’ve admitted previously I tend to get stressed out when baking cakes, I struggle that it’s [...]
