Sunday 3 November 2013

Happy Halloween!

Happy halloween I made pumpkin soup with the pumpkin that we carved. I also cooked a apple pie it was my first pie and the pastry was not made the way it should and my mum said it was a mess but it was really nice. You can use bbc good food for the soup but don't use it for the Apple Pie!                    

Here are some pictures of my dishes.

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Friday 16 August 2013

Holiday in Bulgaria and Transylvania!

                             HELLO

WE WENT ON HOLIDAY TO BULGARIA AND TRANSYLVANIA AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE DID, GONE IN A POOL, ATE OUT MOSTLY EACH NIGHT AND GONE TO LOTS OF DIFERENT PLACES.


First is Bulgaria. lutenitsa is a tomato sauce which also red pepper and aubergine. It was really nice I liked having it with pastries


these are sheep hearts. I didn't like it that much, I enjoyed trying them though


this is a feta type cheese. it was really nice. it's baked with honey and nuts on the top. It was really yummy, but I don't really like nuts I ate them though


this is soft sheep's cheese


now onto Transylvania. this is from Casa Cu Zorele in Transylvania which was a countryside guest house. The lady was really kind and made lots of yummy food for us. This is yoghurt, home made it was SO yum. And my Mum has been making yoghurt since the day that she got home


This is pork paprika with dumplings. That was one of the most nicest things I had in Transylvania. ALthough it took a long time to come out! 


The cucumbers came from the lady at the guesthouse in Transylvania and we ate them with mint and honey on them


these are vine leaves stuffed with pork mince, they were really nice. And they gone well with bread. The tomato sauce had in it honey in it, and on the top is some home made yoghurt

Thursday 23 May 2013

LEON cook5/Times prize weekend!!

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remember a few weeks ago I told you about the cookery competition I won. It was with LEON restaurants and there cook5 website and the Times newspaper. Well it was great. I am going to tell you about it.

My mum went with me. We went on the plane and a few taxis an we eventually got to the hotel witch was great - we stayed at One Aldwich I loved the underwater music in the pool. We went for lunch at Wahaca. And then gone to Hamleys and Fortnum and Mason.

The next day I got a taxi with the other winners Mia and Poppy to the cooking school Food at 52 and it looked fab. You should see it for yourself! first i found all my ingredients  and then everybody started  to arrive. Henry Dimbleby, John Vincent and Beth from LEON, Giles Coren and Tony Turnbull from the Times newspaper, and Raymond Blanc.


Me cooking the dish

 



Raymond Blanc was rely  kind.  He showed me how to prepare squid, he told me to add the salt to my risotto first (which I have never done before). Raymond  has a HUGE Love of food. IT was great to see Raymond   like my food so much. my recipe was a barley risotto with asparagus and lemon juice, and squid. I was pleased how it turned out ( because it was the tastiest I have ever cooked it!). 





HENRY AND JOHN were rely nice and they gave me a basket of goodies from LEON.




My finished dish


The tasting



Me with Mia and Poppy


The day finished with a cookery demonstration from Raymond of pistou soup and chocolate mousse. I think they are rely beautiful. some day I want to have my own restaurant like Raymond. It would be nice to cook for him again in his restaurant!





 the weekend was a life time experience.
        
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Tuesday 30 April 2013

new chicken recipe by Donal Skehan

hello I made a new chicken recipe last night. It was chicken roast on a bed of tomatoes, potatoes, garlic and asparagus. Here is the recipe:

Link to recipe







Serves 4
800g baby new potatoes, halved
1 garlic bulb, cloves separated

1 lemon, sliced
Handful fresh thyme sprigs
3 tbsp rapeseed oil
1.5kg free-range chicken
Large knob of butter
1 large bunch of asparagus, woody ends snapped off
1 125ml glass white wine
Handful of flatleaf parsley, finely chopped
20 cherry tomatoes
preheat the oven to 200c put the garlic cloves, new potatoes and lemon slices into a large roasting tin. Sprinkle the time spring and drizzle with olive oil. Seoson well and toss to combine 

put butter under the chicken skin and put the chicken on top of the vegetables. roast for 45 mins.         

remove from oven, remove chicken and add wine, mix asparagus an tomatoes in and pop chicken back on top. put back in for 30 minutes. rest for 10 mins covered in foil then serve. 

I think it it was very lemony and I love lemon.  It is good for sunday dinner.

Friday 26 April 2013

BEST EMAIL EVER!

Today I got the most surprising emal ever. I have won a competition I am going to a professional kitchen. It is in London. I an going to be cooking for a few professional chef's. I am so exited. 


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Monday 18 March 2013

LEON and cook5


HELLO! Sorry I haven't been in touch recently but I have been doing allot of things though. 

I have entered a competition on a website called cook5 by the people from Leon restaurants in london. I WON the first monthly prize for most liked dish and the prize (don't say I was betting) was one hundred pounds! It made me feel astonished. Here is my dish: http://www.cook5.co.uk/dishes/laura/257/coconut-chicken-and-petit-pois-curry

This is a list of what I did with it 
1. I gone to a very posh food shop when I was in Edinburgh and bought a vanilla pod


2. Got some food for a fancy dinner party



3. I had my friends round and made this:

MENU: crostini with cannelini beans/bruschetta topping; gnocchi with aubergine and tomato sauce; floating islands (but we had them the next night because we were all too tired). Floating islands are poached meringues in a vanilla custard. The starter was a Jamie recipe and I had used his alla norma sauce recipe on my home made gnocchi.






Erin and Nicole had helped a bit, Iain helped me with the gnocchi

Goody good goodbye

Monday 4 March 2013

THE KITCHIN

Hello  Two days ago I went to a very fancy restaurant in edinburgh called The Kitchin http://www.thekitchin.com/
thats the link!
All the food I liked except one thing and that was a chicken jelly.
My starter was a ravioli  but with seafood inside it . It had a lemony sauce drizzled round it. Its green pasta 




Then for mane course I ate plaice with squid and mussels and a buttery sauce.




then for dessert I had a giant soufflĂ© with lemon and I LOVED  IT!


the best bit of it was meeting TOM KITCHIN. He is a very famous chef. He was reely  nice! I talked to him about cooking.




the day before I made his pasta with mussels.


Wednesday 13 February 2013

Italian dinner party

HELLO I had my first dinner party at the weekend ! we invited Daphne. It was hard to choose but I done it. I chose Italian food! We had Caprese salad followed by home made ravioli  then for pudding it was lemon sherbet. I made a zebra cake that was better than Mary Berry's one on sunday!!!!












Sunday 27 January 2013

CHRISTMAS

Hello! sorry I was not blogging I was to busy cooking. Here are some pictures of our christmas cooking




Here is what Santa brought me