Or 'Eggy Bread', Gypsy Toast, French Toast .. take your pick. There are so many names for eggy soaked bread which is then fried in butter. The French 'Pain Perdu' literally translates as 'Lost Bread' which has exactly the right feel for Brioche that's been drowned in a milk/egg … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2015
Vietnamese Style Fresh Spring Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce
Fresh Vietnamese style spring rolls scream summer-time to me and the late May Bank Holiday weekend feels like the start of summer. This year is somewhat blighted by exams, but that's all the more reason to take pleasure in food. They're fiddly to make, so they're the kind of … [Read more...]
Asparagus Soup with a Goats’ Cheese and Asparagus Giant Crouton
Monty Don, he of 'Gardeners' World', said something along the lines of 'If cut-and-come-again salad is the one night stand of gardening, asparagus is a ten year marriage.' To be absolutely truthful, he left me at the point he demonstrated the amount of digging in of grit … [Read more...]
Cheese Soufflé Jacket Potatoes
Soufflé-ish. I've made up a bit of a fancy name for what is really a cheesy baked potato. It's my solution to the fact Dom isn't excited at the prospect of a baked potato and Liddy thinks they are the food of the gods. I make these in all kinds of incarnations. I feel sure if … [Read more...]
Vanilla Butterfly Cakes
Butterfly Cakes are a little piece of nostalgia for me. I was thinking .. I'd never seen them outside of a home kitchen when I decided to make these on Friday, but there's clearly something in the air at the moment. On Saturday, Nigel and I happened upon a new-to-us garden … [Read more...]