Yesterday was a record breaking hot day - and this was lunch. I made some olive bread and put together a Greek-Style Tomato Salad, too, but I'll post them next week. I think I must be thinking 'Greece' because the news is so full of scenes from Athens. Tough times ahead for a … [Read more...]
Hollandaise Sauce
No-one needs Hollandaise, but wouldn't life be a poorer thing without it? It's one of the five 'mother' sauces in French Haute Cuisine and I suspect that's why it's got the reputation as 'difficult' - but if you resolutely refuse to be star-struck, it really isn't a diva to … [Read more...]
Asparagus Soup with a Goats’ Cheese and Asparagus Giant Crouton
Monty Don, he of 'Gardeners' World', said something along the lines of 'If cut-and-come-again salad is the one night stand of gardening, asparagus is a ten year marriage.' To be absolutely truthful, he left me at the point he demonstrated the amount of digging in of grit … [Read more...]