so what else is new?
A round-up of little bits and pieces I’ve been mucking about with at Spud HQ.
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heston blumenthal’s meat fruit
These surprise packages are pork parfait enrobed in a mandarin jelly. Find out how to make them.
Read moremushroom parfait with orange jelly and walnut bread
Sometimes, things don’t turn out the way you expect. You feel cross with your self inside and yet you’ve presented something perfectly acceptable, it’s just you know it should be better. I was commiserating just this point with a friend at a Jubilee party this weekend. She’d made cupcakes, of the supremely fine-crumbed and meltingly-soft icing kind, but was grumpy […]
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Some days of the year call for pure luxury, and I think New Year’s Day should be one of them. This renegade of the 70s is a favourite of mine in a decent old-fashioned restaurant, and is complete indulgence. In essence it’s fillet steak, sitting on pate and a crouton, in a red wine sauce. Traditionally it calls for foie […]
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