Corn Bread
I could eat corn bread all day. Fresh baked straight from the oven with whipped butter, you could ask for nothing more. This is easier than making bread. No resting time, no proving time, simply make the batter, place into tins and bake. The batter itself takes no longer...
Chefs Dinner – Pigs Ears & Speck Pasta
Every now and again my chefs and I treat our selves with a meal before service. Usually it’s left over stuff that would normally hit the bins from specials that might not have performed too well or change of menu and we’re left with ingredients we can’t incorporate into...
Salsa Verde
It is such an amazingly versatile sauce. One of the first sauce I learned in a kitchen were salsas. Not much skill needed here but the skill you learn here is how to balance flavours. In this case acidity. You don’t want this to be over powering in acidity,...
Spaghetti Alle Vongole
I love easy and tasty recipes. People always ask me “so, do you cook at home?”. I do, I love cooking at home, in fact I get a lot of joy cooking for myself. I don’t have difficult customers or ungrateful people to deal with. I can be free in...
Chocolate Fondant
Photo by Jun Pang When I was in Oxford, England I worked in a restaurant run and owned by Raymond Blanc, great French born chef cooking traditional French cuisine in England. I learnt a lot at this place. It taught me to be calm under pressure (eventually). It taught...
Washington DC
Washington DC Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought of going to Washington DC. I thought of many other places to visit in America, like for me, San Francisco for the food scene, Napa Valley for the wine, New Orleans for some good ol’ fashioned Southern food...
Cajun Spice Mix
American food!! I can’t stop thinking about it having just come back from the U.S. I love this lavish, comfort food. The thought of American diners just gets the mouth watering. Southern fried chicken, hot dogs, fries with melted cheese, clam chowders and you can’t forget hamburgers. When I...
Avocado and Tomato Salsa
So many versions of salsas out there and I must say that there are some pretty good ones. I use salsas like a sauce, a healthy version of a sauce. Usually, a salsa will have tomatoes and red onions, all finely chopped into fine cubes and finished with herbs...