http://blog.visitthekitchen.com Create Everyday Meals With a Michelin Star Chef for £35 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:36:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=237 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 ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=233 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 ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=229 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 ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=224 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 ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=219 The essence of Gazpacho soup is that it’s fresh – therefore it’s imperative that all the ingredients you use are extremely fresh.  You’ll find that there are a number of variations to this famous Spanish dish, but my recipe below is a classic version.  Serves 4 Ingredients 1.5kg ripe tomatoes 2 cloves garlic, peeled Breadcrumbs ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=217 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 ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=210 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 ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=206 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 ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=201 We've just had a great session making chocolate truffles & mince pies.  Here are the recipes for those who came (we'd love to hear what you thought about the session so please leave us your feedback below!) and who those who didn't make it here this morning, why not have ... http://blog.visitthekitchen.com/?p=197