My Weekend Top Tip – How to make the Perfect Poached Egg. A poached egg with cooked egg white and soft, runny yolk is a breakfast staple, but they also add a richness to salads like a classic Lyonnaise. I use a poached egg to top a delicious spring dish of Smoked Haddock with Asparagus,…
Eggs
Breakfast Sausage Rolls with Rough Puff Pastry
Do you know, reader, I think I might have invented something new. All of the things you love best about breakfast, served in buttery pastry. Sausage, bacon, egg and mushroom all in one easy-to-eat parcel of deliciousness.
It’s all Greek to Me – The Secrets of a great Greek Salad
We are lucky in the Channel Islands to get some great salad vegetables and with just a few additions that means anyone can make a beautiful Greek Salad. We can talk later about what exactly those ingredients should be, but first, we need to look at the origins of this Mediterranean marvel.
Summer Fruit Pavlova
Summer Fruit Pavlova. It’s peak strawberry season; tennis rackets are in full swing at Wimbledon. But even if the weather isn’t playing ball. Excuse the tennis pun. I thought it would be nice to write about one of my family’s favourite desserts. Pavlova, a big pile of meringue with an icky-sticky marshmallow-like centre. Piled up with whipped cream and topped with fruit. For more birthday celebrations than I can remember a huge Pavlova is always my mum’s go-to show-stopping dessert.