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 [...]
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 [...]
In conjunction with our support for Paul McCartney’s ‘Meat Free Mondays’ we continue our Japanese Vegetarian master classes with Shirley Booth on Monday nights.
Guests arrived last night to a glass of sake to get them into the swing. Shirley started the session with a talk on the origins of Japanese Vegetarian Cooking. For centuries in [...]
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 [...]
Last night we were really pleased to introduce our new Indian chef Hameed Marickar Farook – a great addition to The Kitchen master class team.
Hameed is an accomplished chef in his own right and being from the Madras region of Southern India is extremely knowledgeable on his local food. For Hameed, Indian cooking is [...]
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 [...]
I read with interest the story http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6880386.ece about Gordon Brown’s favourite biscuit. Here at The Kitchen we are never afraid to voice our opinions about our biscuit related matters. I have mercilessly grilled Thierry this morning and have uncovered the truth that the humble shortbread is his favourite! I fully anticipate that this information shall [...]
Like many of you out there I am avidly watching the latest series of Masterchef – The Professionals, whilst we are busy busy here at the Kitchen with our sessions, Master Classes, new dish-dash events and planning for Christmas, I have a little ritual which I stick to every night. Back home, glass of red, [...]
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 [...]