Bacon & egg with peashoots on toast
Finished this with a lovely warm honey, mustard and raspberry vinegar dressing.
Belly of pork with butterbeans
Stuffed the pork with a light layer of sage, date and lemon and roasted on top of the ribs. Made a glorious marmitey meat juice sauce. The marrow and ginger jam was too sweet with the stuffing but will be nice with fish maybe as it was v. lemony.
Plum pies with homemade vanilla icecream
Free-styled an almond sweet pastry but it backfired on me – never frick about with patisserie! Was way too short and crumbly, couldn’t roll the bugger so had to press it into the mold. The plum filling rocked though – as did the faithful old ice cream recipe.
[...] James Law wrote a fantastic post today on “Recipe try outs – pea shoots, pork and more plums”Here’s ONLY a quick extract… pastry but it backfired on me – never frick about with patisserie! Was way too short and crumbly, couldn’t roll the bugger so had to press it into the mold. The plum filling rocked though – as did the faithful old ice cream recipe. [...]
(insert plums gag here)
Hello James,
I am Amanda’s friend in London. You might heard of “Mark (Who Boys) & Junko” from her & Michael and I am this Junko.
I am glad to hear that the problems you had with the restaraunt are now solved as I have been waiting to try your food! Where about is your restaurant?
Hope to see you at some point, probably the next podcast recording or something.
Junko