Monday 16 July 2007
Coming soon
Here are a few of the dishes I whipped up recently. I'll post the full recipes once I've written them out. I might even have to cook them again just to take photos...
Baked Cod, cherry tomatoes and pea, courgette and broccoli puree, served on wild rice with pumpkin seeds and chopped almonds.
Roast butternut (so good with so many things... but recently pomegranate seeds and very good quality feta cheese.)
Baked chicken fillets, wrapped in parma ham, filled with wild mushroom and aubergines
Sweet potato and trout fishcakes
Gnocchi with roast butternut, fresh cherry tomatoes and mozarella
Sunday 15 July 2007
Discharging the Electric
I was discussing my blog with a friend last week, and his suggestion was that I needed to find a bit more focus and direction - have a theme, so to speak. Initially I set up the blog so that I could post my recipes online rather than emailing them round after a dinner party. But like all things, it’s evolved and become more of a restaurant critique than of my cooking, but that is indicative of my current lifestyle. The balance will come back, and I should hopefully get more recipes as well as photos on the site soon.
It’s been a week of interesting turns food-wise. Dinner at The Electric in Notting Hill (where you can normally count on a decent meal) was good for the company but the food wasn't quite what I remembered it to be. I’ve eaten at all it’s sister restaurants too - Cafe Boheme in Soho, Balham Kitchen and Bar and of course the Electric many times. My dinner companion ordered steak tartar to start, and unfortunately he was rather disappointed. He’d been expecting steak tartar in the style one would get in Paris where the egg comes raw and the capers are on the side. While I found it tasty, it was only my second helping of steak tartar so I do admit to being an absolute novice. The other occasion, incidentally, was in Paris last year and I cannot recall if there was raw egg severed with it or not. We shared a bottle of Pinot Grigot, which was pleasant enough, but admittedly nothing too special. I ordered the Duck Salad as my main (feeling very confident after ordering duck at Lantry’s) and my companion ordered the pork belly.
The duck salad was not what I expected. It was an interesting combination of wild rocket, mandarin segments and the shredded duck; however, I found it to be a little bland. The pork belly unfortunately got cold due to us being too wrapped up in our conversation, and the chef was unwilling to warm it up again due to contamination issues.
The Electric has that buzz about it, although perhaps it is becoming more of a has-been with the number of other great eateries competing in the neighborhood (take Food@The Muse or any of Tom Conran's offerings - Lucky Seven and Bumpkin included). I would say that to have a truly fabulous evening perhaps one should be ordering the Lobster and chips or the Chateaubriand, but then I’d prefer going to The Cow and ordering their full seafood platter.
It’s been a week of interesting turns food-wise. Dinner at The Electric in Notting Hill (where you can normally count on a decent meal) was good for the company but the food wasn't quite what I remembered it to be. I’ve eaten at all it’s sister restaurants too - Cafe Boheme in Soho, Balham Kitchen and Bar and of course the Electric many times. My dinner companion ordered steak tartar to start, and unfortunately he was rather disappointed. He’d been expecting steak tartar in the style one would get in Paris where the egg comes raw and the capers are on the side. While I found it tasty, it was only my second helping of steak tartar so I do admit to being an absolute novice. The other occasion, incidentally, was in Paris last year and I cannot recall if there was raw egg severed with it or not. We shared a bottle of Pinot Grigot, which was pleasant enough, but admittedly nothing too special. I ordered the Duck Salad as my main (feeling very confident after ordering duck at Lantry’s) and my companion ordered the pork belly.
The duck salad was not what I expected. It was an interesting combination of wild rocket, mandarin segments and the shredded duck; however, I found it to be a little bland. The pork belly unfortunately got cold due to us being too wrapped up in our conversation, and the chef was unwilling to warm it up again due to contamination issues.
The Electric has that buzz about it, although perhaps it is becoming more of a has-been with the number of other great eateries competing in the neighborhood (take Food@The Muse or any of Tom Conran's offerings - Lucky Seven and Bumpkin included). I would say that to have a truly fabulous evening perhaps one should be ordering the Lobster and chips or the Chateaubriand, but then I’d prefer going to The Cow and ordering their full seafood platter.
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