Any food blogger worth their salt seems to be playing around with ndjua at the moment, so when I came across the glistening meaty log at Broadway market last week, I couldn’t resist jumping on the band wagon myself. And what a super jump it was. The fiery Calabrian meat is often described as a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the food i eat’
Nduja: blow-your-head-off supper
Posted in Maincourses, tagged Calabrian, courgette, food, meat, ndjua, nduja, orecchiette, pasta, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, red onion, roasted vegetables, salami, sausage, the food i eat, thefoodieat on October 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Butterfly leg of lamb
Posted in Maincourses, tagged butterfly leg of lamb, chilli, chillie, food, garlic, ginger, honey, lamb, marinade, mustard, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, roast, roasted, soy, Sunday lunch, the food i eat, thefoodieat on October 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I learned this recipe on a cooking course six years ago, and it’s been my go-to dish ever since. In fact, the first cooking job I did, I was called up at 10 o’clock in the morning and told that I’d be cooking supper in Gloucestershire that evening, so I legged it to the butcher, [...]
National Curry Week 2011
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Reviews, tagged 2011, bay leaf, chicken, chicken ruby, chicken thigh, chilli, coriander, cumin, curry, food, garlic, ginger, National Curry Week, poppadom, poppadom stacking competition, poppadom tower, poppadom tower challenge, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, Ruby Murray, the food i eat, week on October 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Tomorrow is the start of National Curry Week . Sure, the national event might’nt have as much clout as Christmas or New Year (not yet anyway…) but it is a chance to have a go at breaking the poppadom tower challenge (currently 5ft 1”) or the samosa speed challenge (how many can you wrap in [...]
Strawberry, mint and balsamic cheesecake
Posted in Puddings, tagged balsamic, cheesecake, cream, dessert, Fiona Cairns, food, mint, pudding, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, strawberry, summer, the food i eat, thefoodieat on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not the biggest fan of cheesecake, so I won’t be waxing lyrical about this recipe. As cheesecakes go though, it’s a real good’un. The addition of mint and balsamic stop it from being one-dimensional creaminess, and turn it into something a bit more sophisticated and interesting. It’s a Fiona Cairns (of royal wedding cake-maker [...]
Pondering pineapples
Posted in News, Reviews, tagged cheese, cocktail stick, dole, food, hawaii, history, pineapple, pondering pineapples, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, story, the food i eat, thefoodieat on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When a baby bird hatches from an egg, it decides that the first thing it sees is its mother. Well, when my friend Rob came round from general anesthetic, the first thing he saw was a pineapple. Really. His mum had put it on his bedside table. It would be wrong to imply that this [...]
Green Sauce
Posted in Light Lunch, Savoury snacks, tagged anchovy, coriander, food, green sauce, lemon, Leon, mint, mustard, parsley, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, the food i eat, thefoodieat on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Usually I make a bit of effort with the photographs of the food I eat…but on this occasion I failed. I blame it on the fact that this sauce is so intensely delicious, it disappeared before I could get the lens cap off my camera, so you’ll just have to make do with this unappetizing [...]
Ottolenghi’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Burnt Aubergine and Pomegranate Molasses
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged almonds, aubergine, butternut squash, food, lemon, Ottolenghi, parsley, pomegranate, pomegranate molasses, pumpkin seeds, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, sunflower seeds, the food i eat, thefoodieat, yoghurt on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ingredients 1 large butternut squash 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp green, unsalted pumpkin seeds 1 tbsp sunflower seeds 1 tbsp black sesame seeds (1 tsp nigella seeds) 10g sliced almonds basil leaves, to serve sea salt, freshly ground black pepper Sauce 1 medium aubergine 150g (I used less, about 100g) Greek yoghurt (I used [...]
Slow roast pork with fennel
Posted in Maincourses, tagged delicious, easy, fennel, food, idea, pork belly, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, roast, slow, Sunday lunch, the food i eat, thefoodieat on September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Ever since the recession hit and Jamie Oliver roasted belly of pork for six hours, the cut of meat has seen a huge revival. From the mahogany tables of smart London restaurants to the ikea tables of skanky student flats, it’s been the cut of the moment. If you’ve mastered the art of roasting pork [...]
Mima’s Greek-ish Butter Beans
Posted in Maincourses, tagged butter beans, feta, food, Leon, oregano, rach smith, rachel smith, recipe, the food i eat, thefoodieat, tomato on September 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a while since I last did a post (largely due to a chutney disaster which wrote off my two saucepans, but also due to an expedition to the dreicht north, and then my birthday and then an insect infestation). Anyway, today I popped into Waitrose after work and found some discount pork chorizo [...]
Fairy cake
Posted in Sweet Snacks, tagged birthday present, Clara Glass, fairy cake, food, rach smith, rachel smith, the food i eat, thefoodieat on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a drizzly day, and everyone’s feeling a little jaded after excessive birthday celebrations lastnight - so what’s more cheering than a big mug of tea and fairy cakes? Many thanks to Clara for providing much needed (and absolutely beautiful) sustenance. Tea and cake in front of X-Factor repeat…living the dream! For a fairy cake [...]