My visit to the butchers yesterday was another learning experience. I feel a real numpty most times I visit, but do try to take the opportunity to ask questions. I was after a couple of rib eye steaks as our first meat dish of the year. They didn’t have any ready cut so I was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chocolate’
Taking Stock
Posted in basics, cakes, preserving, tagged beef, chocolate, cup cakes, marmalade, steak, stock on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cracking Cheese(cake) grommit!
Posted in desserts, tagged beef, cheesecake, chilli, chocolate, Heston, lorraine pascale, orange on January 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last Friday was our monthly girls’ get together and this month W was hosting with chilli on the menu. i offered to make pud, mainly so I could give Lorraine Pascale’s chocolate cheesecake a go. And what a result! this is one of those fantastically simple, basic recipes that can be adapted many ways and [...]
Christmas 2009
Posted in dinner parties, tagged allotment, blackberry, bread sauce, canapes, carrots, chard & feta parcels, cheesecake, chocolate, cranberry, fennel, fig, mince pies, parsnip, pudding, turkey, venison on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We always start our festive celebrations on Christmas Eve. Once all the preparations are completed some time in the afternoon, we get changed, lock the doors, pop some champagne and head into the sitting room with a plate of nibbles ready for a happy family session of present sharing. We started doing this before we [...]
