Joining the ranks of post Christmas healthy eaters I decided to make a tasty but healthy salad tonight.... I grilled some lightly smoked salmon fillets that I spotted in the shops which I really like and combined them with some crunchy salad leaves, soft boiled eggs and potatoes with a yogurt based dressing laced with…
Read more
New Years Eve beetroot veloute, slow roast lamb shoulder and lemon triple pots
New Years Eve So my mate Eliza from Australia came over for NY eve dinner. She arrived in good shape and left with a cut under her eye, on her chin, on her nose and a pair of smashed glasses... what a nightmare! Poor Eliza slipped on a rickety step in the garden on the…
Read more
Afghan Kitchen, The Albion, BBC Good Food Show, Roast chicken with sauce vierge
Afghan Kitchen Had a great meal a few weeks ago at the Afghan kitchen on Islington Green. A delicious yogurty chicken dish was coupled with a fish curry. Both incredibly fresh and tasty. Along with it we had their special bread. After waiting for the chef to arrive to cook it, I was hoping for…
Read more
General busyness.. (or is it business), Needoo grill, Plum chutney, dim sum, Euphorium Danish pastries
General business My plan was to write new posts every week. I seem to be failing miserably in this becasue of general busyness (as in, being generally busy, rather then general business - what is the correct spelling? Anyone know?). I've apologised before for failing to post and I need to do so again.... I've…
Read more
Egyptian adventures, Marco Pierre White’s Wheelers, stewed! book launch party, Cornish fish and catalan fish stew
Firstly for anyone that's been following my blogs. Apologies, I've lapsed and it's been a few weeks since I last posted. To be fair, I was away in Egypt for a week and had a book launch to organise so hopefully i can be excused, just this once? Please? Egyptian Adventures So Egypt was brilliant. …
Read more
Cooking with Bob, Dinner at Great Queen Street,
Cooking with Bob So on Wednesday last week, we welcomed Bob into the stewed! fold. Bob won the stewed! competition to design a British stew perfect for next winter (fast approaching). He created a beef in ale, full of tasty root veg and we've been working together to create a clever twist. I can't reveal…
Read more
Tree-Athlon, Manchester, Fernandez and Wells
A quick post this week.... The past week has been a busy one. Last weekend, as you know, I ran the Tree-Athlon in London, a 5k run for Trees for Cities, the charity that focuses on the importance of trees in cities and the benefit they give us as human beings. They also plant…
Read more
Trees for Cities Tree-Athlon, Manakesh picture, kleftiko
Trees for Cities Today was the Trees for Cities, Tree-Athlon in Battersea Park. stewed! was sponsoring the event with a few of its stews - for 400 people mind you! It all went down well and I managed to do the 5k run in under 20 minutes (I was very pleased with that!) and raised…
Read more
My kitchen’s too small, Delia Smith’s squidgy chocolate log
It's times like these that I realise I really do need a bigger kitchen. You can't swing a cat in mine. Not even a kitten. I'm awkwardly bending over one of the 2 work top spaces in my kitchen writing this because I've a pan of boiling sugar syrup and lemon zest on the hob…
Read more
Sourdough diaries: the end. Secret cinema, dinner party extravaganza, Lebanese pizzas, Koya Japanese restaurant
Sourdough Diaries: the end This week was a sad one.... after nearly a week of caring for him, feeding, watering, keeping him warm..... I woke on Sunday to find my sourdough starter distinctly mouldy. Bright yellow and red bits of fluffy mould had grown overnight all round the sides of my kilner jar.. so clearly…
Read more
