Food

They look awesome. Thank you. Especially as winter's coming.

I appreciate that most of cooking involves repeating past techniques and flavors, but I probably shouldn't make it too blatent...

Was/am a chef de partie, on the savory sections generally. Was at a michelin kitchen up north, now in a five star hotel. 'Modern european' type food (whatever the hell that means).

In which case I now have to eat at St John's. And the lemon cake looks alright too...

I should clarify- by pastry I really mean the sweets section of the kitchen- the desserts. Though you have succeeded in making me hungry. And that pork would be epic with truffles in one form or another.

Just to weigh in here as well, I wouldn't bother with the banana. I think you could do it two ways. If you want to be uber healthy and lazy, find green veg that's good raw and process it with. Brocolli comes to mind. You could season it with 'warm' spices, eg cumin seed, coriander seed, fennel seed, marsala, pepper etc, then finish it with greek yoghurt. Cucumber may go well as well, depending on what else you you.
Personally I'd treat it as a cold soup. Sweat onions, a few potatoes, cook it off, with anything else you want (watercress, brocolli, leeks, and the like), add the spinich at the very last second, puree, and dump it in an ice bath to get it cold as quick as poss. As serving cold, plenty of seasoning.

Mocha semifreddo was on the last night at work , super easy to serve as you go but might be more of a summer thing