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 soufflé 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.

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!!!!

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

Mummys birthday weekend

Hallo, this weekend has been mummys birthday weekend. I cooked melitzanes papoutsakia - it is aubergines with beef mince in tomato sauce stuffed in. It is topped with white sauce with cheese and egg. Here is the recipe:

http://www.kalofagas.ca/2007/09/27/melitzanes-papoutsakia/

Here is a video tutorial of me making it:

We also cooked a cake with chocolate and beetroot in it for my Mum's birthday cake. The recipe was from a book that my mum got for her birthday, we did the heartache cake but with beetroot not aubergine:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Velvet-Chocolate-Heartache-feel-good/dp/0593062361

Here is my mum blowing out her candles:

Gemista

Gemista is a Greek food. My Mum's friend Konstantinos set me a challenge about gemista. Gemista is rice stuffed in a pepper (not hot). The recipe we used is here:

http://kalisasorexi.com/2011/01/gemista-wild-rice-stuffed-peppers/

You cook the rice with vegetables - carrots and onions. when it was cooked we stuffed it into peppers and cooked it:

we also made bread and brownies.

The brownies were very strong so if you live in alford and go to the little coop, only use milk chocolate because there isn't any dark chocolate except for 85% dark chocolate and that is too dark but we still are eating them

Portuguese codfish

Hallo. I am going to tell you about PORTUGAL. I have been going to Portugal since I was a baby because my Grandad and Vo-vo live there. My Vo-vo makes me CODFISH when we are there. Grandad and Vo-vo sent us some codfish and we stewed it with chickpeas and tomatoes. 

Here is a link to a video to tell you how to make it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLr7fJUfsDw

I made dinner by my self. sammy helped to do the  stirring. I made up the recipe myself - this is how I made it. 

1. FIRST I put some olive oil in a pan I chopped onions and I put them in as well I  cooked them 'til they were golden and brown.