Monday, 18 October 2010

fish and chips

Oated Pave of halibut with pea puree and beer battered salsify chips


Ingreidents





METHOD

seasonal soups

Jerusalem artichoke soup with chicken beignet's and truffle oil - I will get back to this !

serves 4

Ingredients

12 Jerusalem artichokes - peeled and sliced

2 bannana shallots - peeled and diced

1 garlic clove - minced

120 ml white wine

400 ml of veg stock

225 ml of double cream


Method

sweat down artichokes and shallot's until soft, add garlic sweat for a further 1 min. now add white wine and cook for 3 mins, add the stock and bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook for 10-15 mins. when cooked take off the heat and add the cream, now place in a blender and puree until smooth.

beignets (fritter)

2 chicken legs - poached

parsley

lemon juice

batter

Method

Garnish

chopped chives and a drizzle of truffle oil


Wednesday, 6 October 2010

The Pasta Master


The best pasta sauces and pasta recipes

I love pasta, I have been trying to master it for a some time. These are my favourite sauce's and pasta recipes. - I will post them soon

1, Broccoli, gorganzola cream sauce


2,


Friday, 26 March 2010

Chocolate Tart with kirsch cherrys,
candied rose petals, cherry cooli and sugar basket

Chocolate Pastry

200g plain flour

110g butter, cubed and slightly softened

60g icing sugar, sifted

70g coco powder

pinch of salt

3 egg yolks, room temp

method
sieve powdered ingreidents in a bowl, add diced butter and crumb togeather now add egg yolks and bring togeather. clingfilm and rest in the fridge for 1 hour. place in as many tart tins you can get out of it (individual or one big one) 180c blind bake for 8-10 mins then remove beans and repeat this.

Filling

3 eggs
4 egg yolks
175g caster suger
375g dark chocolate
250g butter

method
melt chocolate and butter in a heat proof bowl on a pan of hot water(water not touching bowl) but not boling 4-6 mins, stir once or twice. whilst you are meting the chocolate, whisk eggs, yolks and sugar togeather until pale 4-5mins, when done fold the chocolate into the egg mix. now pour into hot tart cases and bake for 15-20 mins they should be a slight wobble in the middle when done, when done cool to room temp.

Kirsch cherrys

Thursday, 11 March 2010