Thierry Laborde & Natalie Richmond
Once you experience how easy it is to make your own gourmet ice cream you can get creative and concoct your own!
Ingredients
200g Ripe Bananas
200g Single Cream
130g Caster Sugar
50g Dark Rum
Method
Blend the bananas, rum & sugar until smooth.
Add the single cream and only blend for a few seconds.
Put the mixture in an ice-cream maker and churn [...]
A heavenly indulgent ‘pick me up’ recipe for you this week and the perfect way to end an evening meal. It’s a favourite choice for our private cooking parties:
Ingredients
1 egg yolk
125g mascarpone cheese
125g double cream
35g caster sugar
2 sponge fingers
2 shots espresso coffee
Cocoa powder
Method
Mix the egg yolk and sugar together with a whisk, add the cheese [...]
The Spider crab is now in season which prompted me to share this week’s recipe with you – also a favourite of my son, Henri Louis. I add garlic to the mayonnaise to make it more interesting for him.
Cooking the crab:
Serves 1
500g Fresh whole crab
Celery
Peppercorns
Rock Salt
Bring a pan of water to the boil. Throw [...]
I’m thrilled that my blog was featured in Hammersmith & Fulham News the other day – did you see is? (page 7)
This week I thought you might like to try my Creme Vichyssoise, a popular soup, this must be served very cold. If you have no chicken stock in the fridge, you can make the Vichyssoise entirely [...]
For lunch today I made a beautiful Thai noodle salad with organic salmon, chilli and my favourite black bean dressing.
Such a simple concoction of ingredients that creates an amazingly light but powerful and mouth-watering taste– I’d love you to try this out on your friends and family.
This dressing goes wonderfully with beef, tuna, salmon or [...]
This is a great recipe to do with the kids. My 6 year old son Henri gets so excited when we make this together – the best bit being when we turn the bowl of egg whites upside down over my head to check it’s mixed enough!
A delicious dessert popular with all the family and [...]
With the advent of Summer and BBQs on the mind, this week’s recipe makes for a wonderful tasty and impressive dinner party main course. This oriental style tuna recipe is inspired by my days at Zuma. The key is to buy top quality fish (sushi grade A). Give me a shout if you need tips [...]
Wow, I can’t believe the last blog post was Christmas Goodies!! It’s all change now and this is going to be a weekly slot by me. I’ll be sharing some of The Kitchen’s great recipes combined with some of my personal favourites.
For those of you who are new to The Kitchen, here’s a little background…
I [...]
We’ve just had our first Dish Dash session this morning – what a great success! In just under 1 hour our first Dish Dash customer Christina learnt how to make our quick, simple & seasonal pumpkin soup – and left laden with large portions to enjoy at home with her family. She even had time [...]
With the party season fast approaching I thought I’d share my Mulled Cider recipe with you…
Makes 10 200 ml servings (careful its potent!)
2 litres of good quality strong medium sweet cider.
(I would suggest Thatchers Vintage Reserve 8.2% or Westons Organic – anything from these two makers would work well though – steer clear of cheap [...]
This Sunday we’re looking forward to welcoming back highly experienced & accomplished Maitre D, Francois Bertrand for our next Carving Master Class.
We have a couple of spaces left so if you would to learn the tricks of the trade, give us a ring to book in! You will learn how to carve a leg of lamb, John [...]
Just finished a wonderful canapé master class with two lovely ladies, Anna and Catherine. Most people are scared of canapés – terrified of the little fiddly bits and worried that they won’t look good at the end. However it’s surprisingly simple – good, fresh ingredients, splashes of colour and an eye for detail can transform [...]
I was initially heartened to see the article on the front page of The Times this morning (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article6790844.ece) stating that the government could introduce a plan to banish 2-for-1 offers in the supermarkets for a move on reducing the amount of food waste in the UK.
Agreed that it is a sad state of affairs [...]
It has been no real surprise to us to read and hear all the press surrounding the release of the BBC article stating that there are no real health benefits of eating organic food.
Here at The Kitchen we have always been quite vocal in the fact that we do not solely buy organic food, [...]
Not sure if we’re amazed, surprised or angry about the BBC article that states that there’s no health benefit of organic food.
After all those years of buying it, why were we doing it. Well it probably was for the health benefits, but lets also not forget the impact of fertilizers on the environment, so maybe [...]