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Raspberry and Blueberry Polenta Cake
Cake
125 gram unsalted butter, softened
225 gram castor sugar
3 large eggs
150 gram plain flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
125 gram fine polenta
60 gram ground almonds
70 gram plain yoghurt
Rind of 1 lemon, grated
Rind of 1 orange, grated
60 ml squeezed lemon juice
Grease and [...]
FOOD SNOB
Whilst browsing I came across this foody blog! I was fascinated by the treatment of wild foods in the two Michelin starred San Francisco restaurant COI.
The photo is of Nettle-ricotta cannelloni; wild mushrooms, oxalis flowers.
Described by the reviewer as;
A cannellono of nettle, crammed full of ricotta cheese, littered with yellow oxalis flowers, [...]
Courgette and Mint Soup
Ingredients
· 500g courgettes diced (small).
· 1 medium onion peeled and diced
· Olive Oil for frying onions.
· Small bunch fresh mint.
· 125ml water or vegetable stock. Hot
· Tablespoon double cream
· Salt and pepper
Method
1. Heat oil in saucepan and fry onions until they [...]
Isabel has been on at me for about two weeks because she fancies duck for dinner, not just any old duck but an Aylesbury duck, now this believe it or not is quite a problem.
Since George retired and his daughter moved into the new Ludlow Food Centre we have been unable to find a [...]
As reported in the Times; a report commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has concluded that organic food has no more nutritional value than factory-farmed meat or fruit and vegetables grown using chemical fertilisers.
Reading the article in the Times one is therefore asked to believe that the FSA report finds Organic food is no [...]
Spiced Organic Mutton
I got this leg from Welsh Farm Organics, it should be treated in exactly same way as ham i.e. cover with water add aromatics (vegetables herbs whole spices and a splash of white wine) bring to the simmer and cook slowly for about three hours. It can then be served hot with a [...]
Perhaps because I studied classical guitar I have always held an affinity with Spain and in particular that part called Andalusia which is the heart of Flamenco and the birthplace of Andres Segovia. We visited an area where the Tejeda and Almijara mountains tumble down to the Mediterranean, a land where in spring, the lilac [...]
Perhaps Gorgon Ramsey is being a little bit hypocritical when he calls for restaurants to be forced to serve home-grown, locally-sourced produce, and fined if out of season ingredients appear on their menus. After all he has built a reputation running restaurants in the middle of London where there is a distinct scarcity of local [...]
When I was a comis chef to many years ago now to think about, it was always our duty to make sure everything was cleaned after service, although in the kitchen, in which I worked we had kitchen porters, there was still a large amount of cleaning involved with the job. I fondly imagined that [...]
Ultracomida this fantastic little delicatessen and a tapas bar, was discovered for us, by I think Anthony, my wife’s brother, some time last year. Ever since then when we travel down to the Welsh coast to spend the odd day or two in the family caravan near Abereron we always try to time our trip [...]
In the catering industry, as you know we sometimes get weeks when Murphy’s law comes very much to the fore, if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong, and usually at the most inconvenient times.
This has been just such a week, our problems really started last Sunday when we noticed that the drains were [...]
Flying a Kite
The Red Kite is becoming quite a common bird nowadays, but it is still a rare pleasure to see one right over the house, we think it is because they a using the up draught from edge of the cliff that they seem to hover just over the house before drifting off on [...]
All That Glitters is not Gold
What sort of birds do you find using you bird table? the lady guest inquired as I carried her bags through the sunroom which overlooks the bird table. After running though the various types of tits, finches, bigamy birds, nut hatches hedge sparrows etc. I said my greatest disappointment is [...]
We Wuz er Fust me Old China
Two years ago a lovely little river warbler used the swallows nest in the garage to rear its two chicks, luckily they fledged on exactly the same day that the swallows returned, so no harm came to them, but there was a bit of a karpuffle initially as the [...]
I am sure that the local people must have thought Dr Who had arrived in Llanfair and parked his time machine at the Waterdine. None of us had seen anything like it before, Rob who had seen several of its type, thought that it had possibly been made in Russia. I must say its photo [...]
Pam Nicks the best Birds
Whilst Pam’s lodge is being prepared she has moved in the house with us, she has also commandeered the large cherry tree which is now festooned with her various bird feeders,, We have two sorts of woodpecker in the vicinity and it is the Greater Spotted Woodpecker which has been visiting [...]
Rejected By Swallows:
It was only after we had begun to demolish the old garage that Isabel remembered the Swallows which always nested in the rafters. What are they going to do this year? just imagine how disappointed they are going to be after flying all those thousands of miles only to find that their homes [...]
Bumbles New Home
Winter 2006
If the males of the species visit the Waterdine, behind the gent’s loo door they will see a picture of the local hunt gathering for a days hunting, the picture was taken I would guess some time around the late fifties early sixties, in plain view is the old garage, which we [...]
