My guest on Desert Island Dishes today is Monica Galetti (@galettigram) Monica is a chef, a restaurant owner, Masterchef The Professionals Judge, and TV presenter for which she travels the world along with food critic Giles Coren for the program Amazing Hotels. She has recently opened her first restaurant Mere (@mererestaurant) with her husband David. Before that she was senior sous chef at two Michelin starred restaurant Le Gavroche with Michel Roux Jr and importantly she was the first woman to hold such a senior position at the restaurant. Thank you to San Pellegrino for sponsoring this episode of Desert island Dishes. If you or anyone you know wants to get the chance to cook for some of the world’s most acclaimed chefs, head to www.sanpellegrinoyoungchef.com/en/application Don’t forget that you can rate review and subscribe to the podcast on itunes and it really does make such a difference, it boost sthe show in the charts and helps others to find it which is great and means I can keep bringing it to you each week. Link to listen in my bio and stories 🤗 #desertislanddishes
Current stack of cookbooks by the bed includes a vintage collection of Elizabeth David, Viet kitchen by @the_little_viet_kitchen, and The Modern Italian Cook by @josephtrivelli 📚 #cookbookcollector
Hello you lovely lot! 👋 Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet this week - I seem to have taken a slightly unplanned break from Instagram - so many things going on at the moment work wise that I feel like I’m juggling a lot of plates, or is it spinning plates?? Anyway! Popping in to share this gorgeous recipe from Clodagh McKenna with you. Her episode of Desert Island Dishes went out a few weeks ago and I’ve had so many nice messages about it - Clodagh is a proper inspiration so if you need a bit of a pep talk I really recommend listening to her episode. In her episode she also talked about a delicious sounding Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse with Black Cherries which sounded heavenly, so I begged her for the recipe and she’s kindly shared it with us. So here it is: SERVES 4 Ingredients 100g dark chocolate, broken into pieces 75g caster sugar 2 eggs 250g mascarpone 100g black cherries in syrup, chopped Method Place the dark chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water and allow to melt, then remove from the heat Add the sugar and eggs and whisk together for 5 minutes Next whisk in the mascarpone for a few seconds just until combined and fold in the chopped black cherries Divide between the glasses and either serve straight away or chill to use later
This is the kitchen of the brilliant @skyemcalpine - she’s a Desert Island Dishes alumni and her kitchen has got to be one of the prettiest in the business. Seriously considering a kitchen revamp and pink plaster walls are high on my list of wants 😀👀 If you want to have a listen to her episode scroll back to the 20th April last year and have a listen xx
There’s a new episode of Desert Island Dishes out today with Chris Smalling (@smalling). Chris is a Manchester United and England International footballer. He’s been playing professional football for the last 8 years having played more than 300 games for Man United. He talks to me about turning his dream to become a footballer into reality and what it’s like to represent your country on the pitch. In January 2018 Chris made the decision to turn vegan for a number of different reasons which we discuss. He is a pioneer of plant based eating in sport and is part of a growing list of vegan sports stars – including formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton, boxing champion David Haye and tennis star Venus Williams. I cant quite believe it but Chris is the first professional sportsman we’ve had on Desert Island Dishes and although it may come as a bit of a surprise to a lot of you - I am a big football fan, I love watching it and my husband is a huge Manchester united fan so we made a day trip of it and went to the Man U training ground to meet with Chris. Thank you so much for the amazing reviews you’ve been leaving on Itunes recently – they really do make my day and give the show a little boost and help others to find out about the show! If you haven’t yet left a 5* rating now is your moment! Photo credit of Chris: Tom Purslow, courtesy of Manchester United, via Getty Images.
A roundup of 10 of the best new cookbooks will be going in this week’s Desert Island Dishes Newsletter. Make sure you sign up 😀 www.desertislanddishes.co. And I would love love love to know what new ones you’ve been loving or are particularly excited about? #cookbooklover #bookworm
He’s militant about getting his five a day in...🍌🥦🍌
NEWSLETTER: The recipe for this delicious artichoke, pesto, prosciutto and ricotta pizza will be going out in the next Desert Island Dishes newsletter. Make sure you’ve signed up so you can get this delivered hot (almost) to your inbox. Not all pizzas have to be tomato based and I absolutely love the combination of flavours on this one. So completely delicious, it was hard to share. I did so but it was reluctantly I can tell you. This really is the easiest pizza dough you will ever make. This dough was the first ever recipe I posted on my first ever blog many years ago and I still use it today, it’s so quick and easy! Thank you for all the lovely comments and emails on my first newsletter last week, you’re all so nice, thank you! So glad it seems to have gone down well and there will be a new one winging its way to you this week to. If you haven’t signed up, what are you waiting for, click the link in my profile and sign up the newsletter. 💛💛
It’s been a hot minute since we had a sink update. And surprise surprise, it’s still covered in flowers. Flowers and jars of herbs, what could be nicer? Theres sunshine outside and there’s some homemade jam sitting on the side waiting to be slathered on scones for afternoon tea, I’m sitting at my desk with a day of work ahead but that’s still a pretty lovely Sunday to me. Hope you’re all having a lovely Sunday! 💛 #kitchenlovestories