Daily Archives: July 13, 2011

Good Food

Chorizo pasta with rocket and aubergine.

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That will be my staff meal for everyone tomorrow. A wee bit bigger portion though.

I bought 2 kinds of nice chorizo from Waitrose’s counter this morning, the more spicy it is, the better for this dish, if not spicy, can be played around with using some chilli oil or chilli garlic paste, that I still happened to have had in the fridge. I fried it up with some chopped onions, celery, an aubergine, a few cup mushrooms, added a can of good passata and adjusted the flavours with some seasoning and chilli stuff. Cooked the pasta, tossed it in, a generous amount of lovely fresh rocket on top and parmesan. Yum.

Dessert

Hugh’s Chocolate Cake

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Yumminess from Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall. Second time within 2 weeks I’m making it; last week for the boys at work to make up for the extra work I made them do when I screwed up a take away and pissed everyone off. Tomorrow I’m having another new culinary experience, I’m cooking a staff meal for us,never cooked a 15 men dinner in my life, surely it will require  some help, but nevertheless. The cake is coming along, as a dessert.

250 g of dark chocolate was melted with 250 g of butter.  4 egg yolks creamed with 200 g of sugar ( white and brown, just as Hugh suggests ) , egg whites whipped up. The chocolate and butter mix was added to the eggs, nicely mixed, 50 g of plain flour and same amount of ground almonds added in, and then, in bits, the egg whites. Topped with flaked almonds- my touch- and baked for 30 minutes in 170 degrees. Until just set, should be quite wobbly inside.

My second touch this evening, I sliced it in half and spread some lovely plum conserve by my Mum, just to make it a bit different. Two little ones are for us, the big one is for tomorrow.