By Helen Graves, http://helengraves.co.uk/
I’m always thinking about the next thing I can sling on the BBQ. This weekend I fancied flavours of the Caribbean and my thoughts, naturally, turned to RUM. I used that as a boozy base for a marinade, then added a mixture of marmalade and honey, which caramelised on the grill and gave the stickiness I was after. Lime …
By Willie Lebus
I made this stunning Ice Cream over Easter Weekend, and tasting the stunning line up of 2010 Sauternes at Bibendum’s Bordeaux 2010 tasting last week, reminded me that I’d promised to publish the recipe on Bibendum Times.
So here we go…
Vanilla Custard –
So you have to make a vanilla custard. Cheating does not work. …
By Adam Byatt, http://www.trinityrestaurant.co.uk/
Picnic Food – what better way to eat outdoors? Take simple ingredients and a picture perfect setting, put together the things you want to eat in the sunshine; fresh vibrant tomatoes, soft stone fruits, crusty breads and smelly cheeses, to name but a few. A picnic is not a truly successful occasion unless you have sticky fingers and a huge mess to …
By Rob Pickard
Following a week of wall to wall sunshine in the UK, bbq season has started early! However in keeping with true English weather, it has already disappeared as quickly as it arrived. However, it’s still warm enough to get eating al fresco, so before the April showers arrive in force, dust off the picnic rug and clean that rusty old bbq.
Al fresco …
by @jencstephens
Oranges are not the only fruit.
But this time of year they may as well be: I’m still not bored of Christmassy clementines, there are blood oranges if you look hard enough, but best of all are the Seville oranges.
It is marmalade time.
Last year I followed the River Cafe’s recipe, yielding jars of dark, thick cut, tongue-numbing bitter marmalade. Tasty, but perhaps …
By Caroline Conner
This recipe is decadent and wonderful; the cookies look beautiful and are a great crowd pleaser! They’re a little softer than real Oreos, but they are 10 times better!
Adapted from The Gourmet Cookie Book: The Single Best Recipe from Each Year 1941-2009, Gourmet Magazine, 2010.
For the Cookies!
170g butter
250g sugar
1 tbsp rum
1 egg
100g cocoa powder
195g flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Sift the …
By Helen Graves, http://helengraves.co.uk/
Now I know you’re all thinking about diets, detox and exercise. So am I. Let me lead you astray for a moment though as I reminisce about this baked gnocchi I made for my boyfriend’s birthday. We’d started with a venison carpaccio to keep space inside for this baked behemoth – home made gnocchi crisped on top and creamy down under, …
By James Mackenzie
If you are anything like me, when New Year’s Eve looms into view the last thing you want to do is go out to and pay £10 (or more) to get into your local pub to have an anti-climatic night of flat cava and foul canapés. So, unsurprisingly I settled for a dinner party at mine to see in the New Year amongst friends, …
By Caroline Conner
Chocolate truffles are surprisingly easy to produce and make fantastic, impressive and economical Christmas presents. There are really only two important things to remember – use the highest quality chocolate and cocoa that you can buy, and be tidy.
Good chocolate is expensive, here I used Valrhona 68%, where 250g cost me £5.99 from Waitrose, but made over 60 truffles! These truffles are …
By Caroline Conner
This cake was a bit of an experiment, a highly dangerous game when it comes to baking. With cooking it’s easy enough to change things and make it work. With baking, sticking to a well written recipe is essential unless you’re pretty experienced, and completely accepting of the likelihood of failure. Luckily for myself and my colleagues, my adaptations worked!
I was inspired by Hugh …
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