What are your thoughts on Deviled Eggs? 👀 Retro though they may be, I love them! They make such a delicious little appetiser before supper or have them wrapped in little gem lettuce cups as a surprisingly filling lunch. If you fancy giving them a go I’ve popped the method in my stories 🥚🍳🥚
My weekend summed up in a photo 🥰 Lovely country air, huge bunch of flowers picked from the garden, delicious food and now feeling ready for a busy week ahead. Hope you all had a lovely weekend! 💛
They say you should always give presents that you yourself would like to receive. I think it’s the same with food. I made smoked mackerel pâté for lunch the other day with lots of other “picky bits” and decided it really is one of my favourite way to have lunch. If you’ve never made smoked mackerel pâté before - it genuinely couldn’t be easier. In a food processor whizz together smoked mackerel (peel the skin off first), add cream cheese, lemon juice and zest, a hearty spoon of creamed horseradish and lots of freshly ground black pepper. Taste, adjust accordingly and serve with hot toast and anything else you fancy. It takes 2 mins and is so incredibly delicious! 💛
When I asked @nikisegnit - author of the most beloved Flavour Thesaurus - on her episode of Desert Island Dishes about her guilty pleasure food she said it was 3 chocolate digestives and a glass of milk. “Why specifically 3?” I asked She replied simply, “because 2 is never enough but 4 would be too much”. We all know that food is neither good nor bad, but what’s your “guilty pleasure” food? Would love to know!
Without a doubt one of my favourite things about my job is being sent new cookbooks to read. It’s just the most amazing, generous thing and even more so when you know how much time and effort and thought has gone into each one. They are all their own labour of loves and I absolutely love reading them. So I thought I would share a few of the new cookbooks I’ve been sent recently in case you are on the hunt for some new ones... The Joyful Home Cook by @rosiefoodie , One more croissant for the road by @felicitycloake, Moorish by @ben.tish, California by @eleanormaidment, The Island Kitchen by @selinaperiam, so Vegan in 5 by @sovegan, The Secret of Spice by @toniabuxton, Vegan One Pound Meals by @onepoundmeals and Taverna by @georgiepuddingnpie 💛💛 What cookbooks have you been loving recently? 📖📕📗
Apple tart. Whatever form they take I am a huge fan of apple tarts. This one had a puff pastry base topped with a thick layer of Frangipane which I absolutely love. I also added a layer of apple purée just on top of the pastry for an extra hit of flavour. Topped with finely sliced pink lady apples and covered in gently heated apricot jam. This was served with double cream and a quick butterscotch sauce made simply with butter, brown sugar and cream 💕 Let me know if you’d like the recipe and I can pop it up on the www.desertislanddishes.co website 💛
How completely gorgeous is this set up? I love everything about it, like a scene from a Midsummer Night’s Dream. There’s something about eating outside that just makes everything taste more delicious, even if it’s just a prawn sandwich...somehow eating it on a picnic rug drinking something (that should be cold but is now warm) from a mug just makes it a bit more special. Or is that just me?? Ive been moodboarding for summer parties I’m cooking for and this photo just leapt out at me. Total perfection. This photo is by the very talented @bashandbloom 💛
Have you ever made Summer Pudding? It’s such a classic dish and so completely delicious served with lashings of cream. It’s one of those puddings that shouldn’t really work but the whole is so much more extraordinary than the sum of its parts. Showing you how to make it over in my stories 💕
Get him on a beach and he thinks he’s the David Hasselhoff of the dog world 😎