My fridge hasn’t been to inspirational recently. But after a traumatic 5km charity run I thought I’d treat myself with a nice supper lastnight. So when I got back from work today the standard of fridge leftovers was a lot better than usual. Some asparagus, sugar snaps and soft goat’s cheese. Delicious. I ferreted out [...]
Archive for May, 2012
Summer pasta
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, tagged asparagus, broad beans, goats cheese, orecchiette, pasta, pink pepper, sugar snaps, summer on May 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pissaladière
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged anchovies, anchovy, black olive, pissaladiere, puff pastry, sous chef, South France, warm weather food on May 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
One of the great things about my new job is the lunches. A wonderfully civilised part of the day. Cooking, sitting round a table and talking. No more silent desk sandwiches or microwaved soup. But freshly baked olive bread, Thai burgers and meat ragus. The future of working life. Today I cooked a Spanish omelette. [...]
Guanciale Carbonara
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, tagged carbonara, guanciale, ingredients, inspiration, Italian, new job, parmesan, parsley, purist, sous chef, souschef.co.uk, website on May 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I’m mortified that there has been such a long gap since I last posted. Bad blogging. It seems like such a long time ago that I was cooking shin of beef. Partly because it was, but also because I’ve been cooking so many other things in between….because I’ve got a new job – which has [...]