Food In My Home

Home sweet home for a few days with our newest edition to the family Nacho the terrier. And just like an episode of the good life I made dinner with that was totally home grown, lamb from our sheep, and all veg from the garden. I made Lamb fillet with a broad bean pesto, roasted beetroot with balsamic and roast new potatoes with caramalised onions. Broad Bean Pesto I cant give an exact recipe because I can't remember the amounts I used but a rough guide is: 200g cooked broad beans 1/2 lemon juiced 4 tbsp olive oil handful of basil and mint leaves pinch salt and pepper Unfortunatley broad beans are fairly labour intensive but after you have podded them, boil for around 2 - 3 mins and then refresh in ice water. When cold shell them. Pureé the beans and add a little lemon juice, olive oil and herbs, seasoning and tasting, it may need loosening up so you can do this by ading more lemon juice or olive oil, or a splash of water. Get whole raw beetroot and give it a wash and take of the s

All kinds of fun going on in London this summer, on Friday night I met up with some friends on the river to check out Tom Aitkens summer terrace bar outside somerset house which was buzzing with people on the clear summery evening, drinking lots of delicious cocktails and less delicious shots that the barman was mixing for us. The riverside was packed with other stuff going on with pop up restaurants, bars and outdoor theatres all over the place. On Saturday I discovered a great little farmers market just behind Notting Hill Gate which is so close to me that I am very angry with myself for not knowing about it before. It only had about 10 stalls but all filled with delicious produce, I got some yummy goats cheese from a man who just sold goats cheese with all sorts of different kinds, textures, rolled in lemon, ash, chilli and ones stuffed with figs, he even had photos of which goat it came from..extremely personal goats cheese shopping! They also had lots of veg stalls with amazing va

It's boiling in London so I had some friends over for a little healthy salad on the roof washed down with lots of nice cold wine and gossip...I love summer! Mixed salad leaves Beetroot cut into wedges Cucumber Avocado Cherry tomatoes Coriander leaves mixed in with salad Cooked new potatoes Salmon Lemon yogurt dressing tsp dijon mustard tbsp of white wine vinegar 6 tbsp olive oil half a lemon juiced 2 tbsp natural yogurt Using a fork mix the mustard and vinegar together, drizzle the olive oil in and lemon juice in mixing until emulsified then stir in the yogurt, season and lightly toss through the salad.