Truffle Honey
What to do with truffle honey
Monthly Archive May, 2008
What to Eat with Ricotta Cheese
A Simple Summer Salad
I’ve gone back to using ricotta again after a long lay off, my former Australian pastry chef used to like using it along with everyone else if my back issues of Australian Gourmet Traveller were anything to go by. He would use it to make alternative tartlets and cheesecakes and it wasn’t […]
Competing in Salon Culinaires-The Road to Hell
How not to arrive at a Pro Cookery Competition
I’ve decided to write another post on my experiences competing in pro salon culinaires whilst the memories I’ve dragged from the furthest part of my mind still float around.
Salon culinaires which are held on a national level means that the chance of them being on your proverbial doorstep […]
What is Eating my Plants?
Unwelcome visitors in the kitchen garden…
Last year I wrote about the pitfalls of growing your own vegetables and this year I offer you photographic evidence. I do try and grow vegetables as organically as possible and with the minimum of fuss, time constraits allow little alternative choice. Every year I, along with countless millions of […]
Gordon Ramsay Calls For Ban on Unseasonal Food
When Gordon met Gordon, apparently….
Legendary celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay, Britain’s cultural ambassador to the world has called for licensing laws to be introduced banning restaurants from serving out of season produce.
Taking a leaf out of Ireland’s answer to Nelson Mandela, Bono, he has, apparently spoken to the Prime Minister (by default) Gordon Brown on the […]
Growing Asian Herbs
Recreating a Bangkok market in the English Countryside..
This year I am working on two seperate themes for my kitchen garden, half of the garden will be modelled on an Anglo-French vegetable herb garden whilst the areas undercover; the polytunnels, greenhouses and hothouse will be used for Asian vegetables, fruits and herbs.
As many of you will […]
The Salon Culinaire Part One
It’s the taking part that counts, apparently…
I’ve decided to break this down into two (or more) seperate posts in case you didn’t read the title. Back in the early to mid nineties I entered a number of national and international professional cookery competitions, most of which I was told to enter or had already been entered […]
Growing Chillies Part 75!
Contain yourselves, it’s another chilli post…
I know what you’re thinking, not another chilli story. Well, yes. Because a) there’s been an exciting development and b) it’s my blog.
Before you roll your eyes and click on the weather forecast I should tell you that my chilli posts attract a great deal of internet ‘traffic’, such is […]