Thursday 16 May 2013

My Thai noodles

Recipe: serves 4

Groundnut oil
200g Thai flat rice noodles
Bag of Frozen king prawns
1 x Carrot grated
4 x Spring onions
Handful of Mangetout thinly sliced lengthways
2 x Garlic and thumb size piece of ginger minced.
1 x egg beaten
Crushed Peanuts
1x Lime
Coriander
Chilli flakes
1 x tsp Palm sugar
1 x tsp fish sauce
1 x tbsp soy sauce

Method: soak noodles in boiling water for 15 mins before starting. heat oil in the wok, add garlic & ginger followed by king prawns until they turn pink. Add the egg and the veg stirfrying for another couple of mins, then add the juices, sugar and sauces. Stir fry for a further 3 mins, add the Coriander and serve with the peanuts, lime and Chilli on the side to sprinkle on top.


Salmon, asparagus & poached duck egg on watercress pesto

For watercress pesto: blitz together watercress, parmesan, garlic oil, lemon juice and black pepper.

Salmon cooked in foil with butter in the oven for 15mins. Asparagus blanched in boiling water for 2mins and duck egg poached for 4mins.


Friday 26 April 2013

Celebration Medicine cupcakes!

I made these for a friends son who has just graduated as a Dr.


Trailer

Finally found a trailer for trading. Now to jazz it up. Watch this space.


Thursday 25 April 2013

Indian spiced lamb burger with garam masala chips, raita & mango chutney.


Salmon and scrambled eggs on sourdough

Weekend treat!


Pie and mash pop up restaurant at 12a club Cambridge.

Hosted by carri from pavitt pies. The pie was delish, i had a chicken and mushroom and my boyfriend had steak and ale. All ingredients being sourced locally. My only complaint was there wasn't enough gravy!
For dessert we had 3 enormous profiteroles made by don pasquale downstairs. They were really good but neither of us could finish them because of the size!



Chorizo, tomato, rocket and pestonaise ciabatta


Pretty hat cupcakes




Chorizo, avocado and blue cheese salad.

Ingredients (serves 2):
1/2 avocado
Ready to eat cubed Chorizo
Half red chicory sliced
One baby gem lettuce sliced
Handful of rocket
3 x radish
50g blue cheese
1 spring onion
A few basil leaves
Mustard vinegarette


Jamie olivers simple chocolate tart.


Asparagus wrapped in parmaham

Blanche asparagus for 2 mins, drain and put into cold water for a further 2 mins. Then wrap with parmaham and serve with a mascapone and pesto dip.


Lime cheesecake

From women and home website.


Chocolate flake cupcakes


Saturday 16 March 2013

Nelsons head - Horsey, Norfolk.

Perfect seaside pub. We parked our car here and walked through the sand dunes onto the long stretch of beach where all the seals hang out! Came back to the pub after a long walk for a well needed ale and some fish and chips!



My Greek salad

Ingredients:

- feta
- red onion
- green pepper
- selection of tomatos
- cucumber
- Greek olives
- dill
- cress
- lemon juice
- olive oil

Method: roughly chop all the salad ingredients and mix together.crumble over the feta. Sprinkle with cress and dill and drizzle with lemon juice and olive oil. Serve with grilled flat breads.


Chocolate cupcakes with popping candy and butterscotch.


River cottage Blueberry muffins