Onions, leaks, carrots, turnip (no peas of beans), cabbage leaves. Sweat the veg gently in the pressure cooker (used as a pan). Add water to just cover the vegetable, salt and pepper, steam for 10 minutes. Don’t open until all the steam has gone! Blend. If it’s a carrot-oriented soup you can add a little orange [...]
Aluminium oval dish works best, but otherwise oval ovenrware dish. Cut Bramley apples in big thick boat chunks until dish is overfilled with apple. In a mixing bowl 3 heaped table spoons of caster sugar, 3 heaped sifted tablespoons of selfraising flour, 2 eggs (yolks plus whites), 2 packets of vanilla sugar (small packets), good slug of [...]
Hard boil eggs, boil potatoes (good Jersey new potatoes for example); slice the tats on kitchen paper so they’re nice and dry, and let them sit so they’re cold. Fry them gently in butter and oil until nice and golden. Add a lot of double cream, salt, pepper and a sprinkle of nutmeg. Let it [...]
Butter and sugar in the bottom of a moule a tarte, organised chunks of (eating) apples – coxes, granny smith etc. Cook in the oven at around 170c, and once the apples are nearly cooked, drape short crust pastry on top, back in the oven, and when it’s cooked, let it sit until cold. Serve.
Oil, butter, meat, roasting dish, salt & pepper to taste. For pork: smooth french mustard, or, if you can get it, hazelnut and port mustard. The cut should be fillet, with the fat and skin cut off For beef: garlic. The cut should be corner top; pork: fillet, with the fat and skin cut off [...]
Courtesy of Gordon Ramsey. Ingredients: 400g Beef fillet, 400g Flat mushrooms, 4 slices Parma ham, English mustard for brushing meat, 200g puff pastry, 2 Egg yolks, Approx 8 Charlotte/New potatoes, 1 Clove garlic, crushed, 1 Sprig thyme, 2 large baby gem lettuce, Salt and pepper, Olive oil, Mustard vinaigrette (optional). Pre-heat the oven to 200c. Heat some oil in a large pan and quickly fry the seasoned beef all [...]
Needed: good lean beef mince. Loads of finely chopped onions, fried off in oil at a low heat until transparent without being burnt. Put them in a sieve to drain until there’s no liquid (oil, grease or water) left. Mix with the meat, add salt and pepper, bind with milk (not eggs!) added in dashes until [...]
Sweat down onion, garlic (and celery if you choose, though not essential) and one red pepper with salt, pepper, olive oil and a bay leaf; when they’re all soft, add lentils and cover with water – bring to boil and simmer for about 30-40 minutes making sure you keep topping up with water as required. [...]
2 eggs 18oz mascarpone cheese 3oz sugar 18oz sponge finger biscuits 1/2 pint strong black coffee 3-4 tablespoons of your tipple of choice (coffee liquer etc) 2-4 tablespoons of cocoa Separate yolks and whites of the eggs. Beat egg yolks and sugar until light. Beat i cheese, mixing until smooth.Whisk egg whites until stiff, but [...]
Needed: Shoulder or cheap leg of lamb (~4.5 lbs) Onions Chicken stock (2 cubes) Bread crumbs Cheddar cheese Roast the joint, and allow to cool. Put the joint in a casserole dish (you may need to saw the bone), add in one onion (quartered), one carrot (quartered), one bayleaf, plus enough chicken stock to cover [...]