Ottolenghi's back in the house.

Having frozen a huge batch of the crumble months ago, these little puppies were a cinch to make. Blueberry Crumble muffins. Looked great. Tasted even better.

Back in the kitchen where i belong.

When people told me to get all of my cooking out of the way before child entered world, I really thought they were talking crap, alas here i am two and a half weeks after popping her out and all I've managed thus far is a Kurnik Chicken Pie. It's a damn fine pie, but that's one dinner out of a possible 13 since leaving the hospital. Lame-o.

Apple Walnut Empanadas.

Superb recipe!

Our babymoon (7 months).

Ottolenghi white peppercorn squid.

Delicious, just goes easy on the white pepper. Recipe here.

Warm glass noodles and edamame beans.

Recipe

Ottolenghi Saturday.

 

Quinoa, Fennel and Pomegranate Salad recipe

Wasn't completely happy with the flavor of this one so improvised (shock horror) and added some pomegranate molasses to the dressing. Wasn't bad, but would probably be better with the addition of some shredded chicken. Colours looked good though. 

Sweet and spicy beef and pork pie recipe

This was pretty delicious and looked a treat too. The only bit i couldn't quite nail was getting the egg to cook. It took about 15 minutes as opposed to the recommended 5, which gave the shortcrust pastry a bit of sunburn.

Ottolenghi's green tea noodles with grilled prawns.

Recipe

Galloping horses.

 

(From the Thai Bible)

warm Vietnamese beef salad.

Recipe

Dave Lebovitz's lamingtons.

Recipe

I used jam instead of chocolate for the filling. How can you have a lamington without jam?

San Francisco garlic fries and beef burger.

Fries recipe here. Burger patty was just beef, egg, mustard, breadcrumbs, onion and Aleppo pepper, sandwiched between tasty cheese, tomato relish, mustard, mashed avocado, sauteed onions, tomatoes, pickles, tomato sauce and a soft white bun. Scrumptious.

Watermelon, prawn & haloumi salad.

Gourmet Traveller - recipe here.

Berry sorbet.

Breakfast!

Haigh's Decadnent Tyramisu.

 

Recipe

The richest dessert i've ever made, Absolutely delicious. Not particularly cheap to make if you use all of the suggested Haigh's ingredients but well worth the calories.

Which bum is Ben's?

An awesome hens do game i made up. Basically, we hold up 5 bums/eyes, toes, testicles etc and the hen has to pick which one belongs to her man. Hysterical.

Apple and olive oil cake with maple icing.

Ottolenghi - The Cookbook (p.192) Recipe here.

Dave Lebovitz's Raspberry Sorbet.

Roast sweet potato with pecan and maple.

 

Ottolenghi - The Cookbook Recipe: P.67