England may be out of the World Cup, but there’s still lots of excuses to throw a football party. For people who enjoy a cooking challenge, it presents opportunities to burrow through the regional cookbooks and get inspired. Will you serve the Nigerian jollof rice? German Bratwurst? Australian shrimp? Ghanaian fufu? Here’s a pair of great Latin-flavoured dishes in celebration of […]
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Hold on to your toques, this is a Blumenthal gadget-fest. Here’s a run-down of the Heston kitchen toys employed in this recipe: Measuring Spoons Kitchen Wizz Pro Adjustable Rolling Pin Oven Thermometer Probe Thermometer Timer Whisk Silicone Spatulas Chef’s Knife That’s a hell of a list. The odd one out in this list is the Kitchen Wizz Pro, a beast […]
Read moreMy family can’t get enough of olives. So when Olives from Spain sent me a bunch of ingredients to try to create a marinade for olives I set to it right away. There was an almost embarrassing selection of things to try, but I kept going back to, of all things, the lemon. Paired with it’s old friend, black pepper […]
Read moreShock, horror! Another roast potato recipe on this blog. What an anomaly. Of course it isn’t, I’ve got roast potato recipes here, here and here for starters. But this was another twist, derived from cooking Heston’s perfect chicken (again). The chicken there is treated with a boozy butter baste. I’d gone a bit crazy and made too much, so decided […]
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