As part of a collaboration with BakeAcrossEurope we decided to have a go at Christmas puddings. She’s gone down the traditional route, making an Eliza Acton recipe, and I… didn’t. In 2010 Heston Blumenthal released the ‘hidden orange Christmas pudding’ in conjunction with Waitrose. I wrote about it at the time and it’s bizarre to look back on it now. […]
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Ask people to name a dish by Heston Blumenthal and you’ll hear things like egg and bacon ice cream, Sound of the Sea, …and probably snail porridge. If you want to see a video of me making this, I filmed a livestream of it. Click to watch! One of Heston’s chefs went on honeymoon and had ‘fish porridge’ in New […]
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I recently got hold of a copy of Marco Pierre White’s White Heat book from the library. It is a cookbook but really it’s a capture of a time and a place: when Marco was on top of the culinary world and the absolute hottest thing in chefs and cookery. I hadn’t read it before; I devoured it an hour […]
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When you order the ‘steak experience’ at a Miller and Carter restaurant you get to choose a sauce. I’m a big fan of the beef dripping sauce but the fruity bordelaise is a good choice. Want to know how to make it at home? This how you can make the bordelaise sauce Miller and Carter style. Bordelaise sauce is a […]
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