Sous Vide SIrloin

It has been a while and I am not quite sure why. I blame the summer holidays 😉
However, believe it or not, I have been eating and cooking in the meantime. I even posted a video on it on YouTube. It's about cooking a lovely piece of sirloin sous vide - the BEST way to cook red meat (in my humble opinion).

Have a look and don't forget to like, subscribe, G+, and so on...

Steamed Sea Bass

It's Regal Fish time again. This time I got two whole sea bass, gutted and scaled from Regal:

https://www.regalfish.co.uk/seafood/whole-fish/sea-bass-whole-descaled/

Admittedly, my filleting skills need improving, but I used, the bones and head to make a lovely fish stock, which added bags of flavour to the final dish. I steamed the fillets in a tin foil bag in the oven with ginger, garlic and chilli.

In order to make it a proper meal I steamed some broccoli with the same aromatics, fried off an Asian mushroom mix and served it with wild rice. To garnish I added some hibiscus salt.

The only complaints my kids had was, that there was only one fillet per person...

Poached Duck Egg with Hibiscus Salt for Breakfast

Well, I love poached eggs. And the one I had for breakfast today was special. This one is a duck egg and the yoke is super creamy. Underneath the egg is loin of pork with a little mushroom powder for added umami. The hibiscus salt on top is simply good sea salt blitzed together with dried hibiscus flowers. Add freshly ground pepper and a little basil to add some green and you have a breakfast fit for a king.

You can find out more on the mushroom powder at: Magic Powder

The Fat Duck

A few pictures and clips from our visit to The Fat Duck in April 2017

Yeah - Masterchef is back!!!

Oh, I missed this. I might be getting a bit judgemental ;-) Can't wait to see the making of some of the food from the intro...

Jellied Cherry from Minamoto Kitchoan

We recently discovered Minamoto Kitchoan - a treasure trove for anything Japanese. These jellied cherries were just to die for...

Even the packaging looked stunning

And they just melted in the mouth

If you are anywhere near the Strand go and have a look!

Sesame Marinated Steak

This is one of our family favourites. We found it in a Japanese cook book years ago. This time I used the marinate to also dress  the asparagus and we had edamame and cauliflower couscous flavoured with Shichimi Togarashi