Heston Blumenthal has a number of iconic dishes associated with him: snail porridge, hot and cold nitro tea, and meat fruit. I’ve had a go at making meat fruit before, but I wondered… could it be done on a budget? Can I make Michelin-starred food using only Aldi ingredients? Well in short… yes! Just using two ingredients we can have […]
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I look back over 2023 with some of my favourite posts and projects at BigSpud HQ.
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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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