I have made some more stock cubes...

In case you missed the video, here it is...

Konbu Cured Halibut Sushi - Provided by Regal Fish

Wow - this is a first! Regal Fish have been kind enough to send me some Halibut free of charge (and actually some hake, but that's for another post...). So this is what I made of it....

Based on Heston Blumenthal's "Heston at Home", this is Konbu Cured Halibut Sushi....

Thank you Regal Fish!!!

Magic Powder Revisited

Following on from my previous post on Magic Powder, I made this short video on how to make it and also how to make Kelp/Konbu powder...

I hope you enjoy!

The Hind's Head - Another Trip to Bray...

Last week we went back to Bray. This time we went to the Hind's Head and what an amazing place it is! Gorgeous cocktails, divine  food and first class service! Have a look...

The whole family loved it

Loving Tom Kerridge's Lose Weight For Good

We have been having stuff from Tom Kerridge's Lose Weight For Good 3 to 4 nights a week for dinner. Tonight's was the falafel...

Rhona (my wive) cooked them and her own criticism was that she should have blitzed a little more in the food processor. Well, the kids and I loved them!

Also, the dressing for the salad was from another recipe in the book and that is our go-to dressing now. No oil, no sugar, but super delicious.

Seriously tasty food without any guilt :-)

 

The Ninth

Part of my Christmas present, we went to he Ninth, Jun Tanaka's new restaurant and it was amazing...

Giada meets the Hairy Bikers - powered by Regal...

Where do I start??? Perhaps the result is a good starting point... So here it is:

We  were watching The Hairy Bikers this week and were intrigued by their G+T battered fish. We just happened to have some lovely plaice from Regal in the freezer, so I decided to give it a go.

In case you wandered about the funny shape at the top left, we had some left over sweet sprouting cauliflower, so I thought it would work with the remains of the batter - and it did ;-)

On a completely different note, my wife and I watched Giada de Laurentiis' programme and she started to use different root vegetables, flour-ing them with corn starch, egg washing them and finally coating them in a bread crumb  and Parmesan mix, which makes delicious "chips".

Adding some simple, shop bought tartar sauce and we had yummy fish & chips.

Twiglet Cheese Whirls

This weekend my son and I were working on his home learning. He had to bake something from World War 2. After some research, we found this recipe for "Cheese Whirls":

https://the1940sexperiment.com/2009/11/11/cheese-whirls/

Well, here is how we got on :-)

Well, they were delicious, but with all the Marmite I'd rather call the Twiglet Whirls. The highest accolade you can get in our house is "That's a do again!" These were in that category, but next time I think I'll just use shop bought puff pastry.

I'm Turning Respectarian!!!

Who needs Flexitarian??? I'm going Respectarian!!! Join me!!! Use exclamation marks!!!

Let me know what you think and spread the word #respectarian

RIP Paul Bocuse

Just heard on the radio that Paul Bocuse has died. A true loss to the culinary world. I got the book below for Christmas and only just stared reading it. Full of inspiration...

Rest In Peace

You have to make stock!

I have just posted my new video on making stock inspired by Heston and Nigella!
Hope you enjoy and please subscribe to me on YouTube!!!

  

Not really a food post, but...

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Being good but naughty...

Bangers and Mash - quintessentially naughty food ;-)

However, this is parsnip mash, kalettes crisped in the oven, onion gravy from dry fried onions and...

Heck Super Slim sausages. And best of all, it was delicious! 

Anaemic Mary

I just love this one! It's really funky and also comes with bags of flavour. Think "Bloody Mary", but in an almost white foam...

...super delicious and seriously strong in flavour!

I hope you like the video - let me know what you think.