I love a good roast and Côte De Boeuf or ribeye of beef is my favourite cut to roast. So this Christmas I roasted one and took some pic for a special friend who said she has trouble cooking beef. I hope she enjoys the step by step pictorial. Hope she will try again as … Continue reading Côte De Boeuf – Ribeye of beef
Besil pesto sauce was first introduced to me by my late father-in-law. Tears welled up my eyes as I type this. It’s been a year since we lost him but it still hurts. I missed his daily phone call to ask me ‘What’s for lunch, Julie?’ He might not be here but his teaching/recipes lives … Continue reading Basil pesto sauce
Today we are still in lockdown in the UK due to Covid-19. This morning I woke up in a cooking mood. At first I wanted to cook 3 meals for today, breakfast, lunch and dinner. However I ended up only cooking 2 meals. Brunch of roast chicken with noodles and dinner is traditional old British … Continue reading The British Stew
A crêpe or crepe is a type of very thin pancake. Crêpes are usually of two types: sweet crêpes and savoury galettes. Crêpes are served with a variety of fillings, from the simplest with only sugar to flambéed crêpes Suzette or elaborate savoury galettes. My hubby actually prefers them with lashing of butter and just … Continue reading Crêpe
With this Covid19 ongoing and the hubby working from home plus having the family here to be fed at least twice a day is mind taxing. I have been cooking only one meal a day for so long and have always taken my sweet time in deciding what to cook until now. I missed my … Continue reading Square Egg
As I am going to cook spaghetti bolognese today I just realised that my recipe in my old blog is still missing from this new blog. So I have decided it’s time I update it here in this new blog. My boy asked for his comfort food and I made the bolognese sauce today so … Continue reading Posh Spaghetti Bolognese
In the UK we too are under quarantine and have since moved to quite stringent quarantine, just short of a total lockdown due to this virus Covid 19. I have not left my house since Friday the 13th. As I am of the high risk group I decided to quarantine myself early on. In the … Continue reading Carbonara
I have never hidden the fact that I prefer my cake naked. If it has to have a filling then I prefer it with fresh cream. I do not like a lot of icing, fondant, marzipan etc etc. However I like a bit of butter with dry cakes, ok a lot of butter with dry … Continue reading Brandy Butter Chocolate & Coffee marble cake – special
When we were growing up, my sibling and I, the five of us enjoys my mother’s butter cakes and often we have to fight over the last few pieces. Now I can laugh about it but I remember then there were even tears! This is my 3 parts Rich Brandy Butter Cake. I also recollect … Continue reading Rich Brandy Butter Cake – Special
I bought a huge English crab from Devon and I used the boiling method to dispatch it to crab heaven and then painstakingly picked all the meat. One of the dish I made from some of the meat is potted crab. This is extremely easy to make and taste good if you are a fan … Continue reading Potted crab with a hint of lemon
