Recipe for Plum Sorbet, with thanks to the chefs of the George and Dragon Inn, Clifton, Penrith.
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Kitchen Garden Café, Askham Hall
When we called in at Askham Hall, near Penrith, at the beginning of July 2012 the new Kitchen Garden Cafe was well underway, the outdoor wood-fired oven had arrived and the new chef, Simone Corrias, was due any day.
I had arranged to meet a friend at Central & Co, a brasserie in Great Marlborough Street just off London’s Regent Street. I had not been there before and wasn’t sure quite where it was but much to my delight even from a distance I could see its discreet but clean-cut lettered sign.
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Recipe – Jersey Black Butter Cheesecake
Serves 8 (If no black butter is available use any high fruit content jam) Ingredients 300g digestive biscuits100g unsalted butter1 jar/225g La Mare Jersey black butter (or high fruit content jam)1 vanilla pod (split and seeds scraped)3 tbsp waterJuice of ½ lemon4 gelatine leaves500ml double cream300g Philadelphia cream cheese Method Blend the digestive biscuits and […]
Serves 4 Ingredients 4 fillets of bass (175g each –pin boned and scored on the skin – ask your fishmonger)3 tbsp light olive oil (for cooking)2 large red capsicums (peppers)1 large yellow capsicum “2 tbsp lemon juice and zest of quarter lemon6 tbsp olive oil (good quality, ie La Blanc)4 pieces of cleaned squid (60g […]
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Kopi Coffee Explorer Club
We’ve signed up for a year’s supply of Kopi coffee. The aroma and flavour of the August bag of Sumatra Aged Mandheling Grade 1 coffee had us in an advanced stage of addiction after just two cups. Every month Kopi send out a different single-origin, ethically sourced coffee from around the world, along with tasting […]