Do you sometimes stare into your fridge when hungry, look at all the food inside whilst dreaming up all the great meals possible. Then the grim prospect of spending a long time prepping the food, stops you right there. You might then activate plan b, which is foraging around for quick junk loaded with sugar, [...]
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Sweet Corn & Thyme Risotto
The picture above looks like some extreme risotto porn, I got carried away & zoomed in a bit too close… Anyway it looks great, doesn’t it? The risotto you are looking at is sweet, creamy & also quite sinful. I enriched with mascarpone & butter. It is pseudo vegetarian since I used dairy products, I [...]
Chicken ballotine, potato puree & carrot jus
08 Apr 2009 at 23:31
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French Lessons by Justin North, La Technique by Jacques Pepin, Random Recipe
Sometime last year I had lunch at Caveau a great little restaurant in Wollongong. Head chef at Caveau is Peter Sheppard, a protege of Liam Tomlin. Anyway, the lunch special on that day was a chicken ballontine with potato puree, mushrooms, buttered spinach & cepe(porcini) sauce. The chicken was cooked perfectly, I am still trying [...]
Roast Pork Belly with Puy Lentils
I think Anthony Bourdain once said pork belly is the poor man’s foie gras, he was right on the money. Pork belly is sandwich of lean meat & pork fat, it so sinful & tasty. I fell in love with roast pork belly in Thailand 4 years ago. When every other sunday, I would go [...]
Simplicity: Steak & Chips
Quick lunch, steak & chips….. the pan sauce with the steak was amazing. Real easy, when steak was almost done(cooked it medium rare). I added about 20 grams of butter to pan, basted steak for a few seconds. Set aside steak to rest, deglazed the great fond(caramelised meaty bits) on the pan with brown chicken [...]
Cheddar margherita pizza with pimento meatballs
This is a really fast pizza I made for lunch, it is assembled rather than cooked from scratch. This is the lazy pizza that tastes better than anything Debonairs pizza or Pizza inn in Nairobi can do IMO. It is probably cheaper too. Grill ready made meatballs. I used the KMC(kenya meat commision) one’s, sprinkled [...]
Simplicity: Egg & Chips
How easy is this. Wash potatoes, leaving the skin on, cut into chips. Parboil for 10 mins, toss chips in olive oil, thyme, salt & some chili powder. Cook in hot oven for about 30 minutes. Fry an egg any way you like it, I like mine fried with sunny side up. The yolk is [...]
Lime Panna Cotta & Cranberry Compote
I was online a few days ago reading the “tastingmenu blog” by a professional chef & her partner, the post on perfecting panna cotta caught my attention. Panna cotta is an italian desert that consists of flavoured cream set in gelatin. Dana the chef on the blog scientifically explains the method to a perfect panna [...]
Pizza Margherita
My first pizza, margherita pizzas are simple & all flavours work perfectly together. This pizza is just my homemade dough, homemade tomato sauce, basil, mozzarella & extra virgin olive oil. The processed mozzarella was great, it’s from Browns Cheese. I have not been able to track down any fresh mozzarella in nairobi yet.
My home made bread – Whole meal boule
I love baking bread by hand, it is a slow but rewarding process. This bread took about 4 hours to prepare & bake. I am still a novice at baking, but the results so far have been very rewarding. You cannot compare home baked bread to the commercial crap in the supermarket. The only bread [...]
