Food

Been baking again today & thought it was about time I shared the goodies...Swiss Cakes with Raspberry, Rhubarb & Fruit Cider Jam...

More of the Beery/boozy goodies can be seen on the old blog (shameless self promotion) http://bettymadethis.wordpress.com/

olly398, why have i only just noticed your blog. it's charmingly written and the pics and food are great man. subscribed.

• 1
  

thanks man, you just reminded me that i didn't actually subscribe.

*subscribes

(*doesn't actually subscribe)

ok now i actually did

:) me too

i impulse bought 4 langoustines, what should I do with them?

Burger and chips in the Rose & Crown, Stoke Newington last night, best chips in town, actually outshine the excellent burger.

Dinner at the Hawksmoor Bar last week, very good, taste explosion, small portions but then I am a greedy fuck.

i impulse bought 4 langoustines, what should I do with them?

Cut them in half right down the middle with a big, sharp, mean knife.

Slap em cut side down on the BBQ or an extremely hot griddle for a few mins.

Brush with melted butter, salt and pepper.

:) me too

Oohhh! Doubled follower list!

insert yesbaby.jpg

First BBQ of the year/new house this evening, on our new Weber.
It was awesome.

Marinated some duck breasts in soy sauce, chinese rice wine, chinese 5 spice, worcester sauce, crushed chillis, black pepper and honey. Was possibly the best and juiciest duck I've ever had - it even beat the original tasty duck we cooked at Dammits rooftop BBQ a few years ago - we have been trying to beat it ever since.

I also made this which was bloody amazing!

Good duck marinade, what I normally do to duck except for the worcester sauce, will try that next time.

That cous cous looks 'lish.

It does look very bloody good indeed.

Uhh...had some amazing smoked couscous yesterday. Lish.

Incredible. Share, share and tell us where...

OMG the couscous at Khamsa is AMAZING! http://www.khamsa.co.uk/

Nutty, fragrant, hot perfection.

Sorry to keep going on about my bread but I baked my best sourdough loaf this morning

Looked pretty good when cut too

Nice. I would love to have the schedule that would allow me to maintain a starter. Do you use a pizza stone for your bread baking? I find that is makes a huge difference to my loaves.

Banana bread cooling and walnut coffee cake in the oven. Butter icing with coffee, walnuts and orange zest to begin shortly.

TBH it's pretty straightforward. My base starter lives in the fridge, then the day before I get out a spoonful from the bottom then feed that up with 90g flour and 90g water. Next day it is ready to form the dough.
It's very hard to kill a starter

I've been eating a lot of hot pot at home lately.

Special peanut sauce...

In front of the comp:

Playing games while chowing..

a couple hours later...

Good lord.

How the fuck did you eat all that?

Hollow legs and not eating for 4 days.

I suspect.

Good work soldier! Shame you live so far away...

To be fair, the meat tends to shrink quite a bit after cooking.

Free Bacon Sandwiches (apparently) in the city tomorrow....
As part of National Salt Awareness Week, the Put Pork on Your Fork campaign is coming to Broadgate on Tuesday the 27th of March. Free sandwiches will be served from the campaign’s double decker bus to promote the UK’s first ever low salt bacon. Come down to Finsbury Avenue Square between 7am and 3pm for your free low salt bacon sandwich.