Posts Tagged ‘Salad’
Friday, May 21st, 2010
One of the other dishes I was thinking about for the previous post was this omelette for two. I thought it could work quite well in that it combines seaside ingredients with the romantic nature of Lou and Liam’s retreat. However, fish for brekkie isn’t to everyone’s tastes, so this is the kind of dish you can enjoy at any time of the day.
There’s only one mackerel fillet in the mix so the flavour isn’t too strong, and I use a bit of zero fat Greek yoghurt in the eggs to help keep the omelette moist in the middle. The little bit of sharpness the yoghurt gives also works well with the oily fish.
Ingredients
4 large free range eggs
2 tablespoons 0% fat Greek yoghurt
1 mackerel fillet (around 70g)
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2 tablespoons chopped chives
2 tablespoons chopped flat leaf parsley
Handful of grated Parmesan
Salt and pepper to taste
Olive oil and butter for frying.
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Tags: Chives, Eggs, Greek Yoghurt, Mackerel, Omelette, Onion, parmesan, Parsley, Raddish, Salad, Smoked
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
There are few meals as satisfying as a roast chicken. Even if you’re having a REALLY shit day, a roastie can turn tings around. What’s more, there are always leftovers, which means there’s always another meal or two to be eeked out of the carcass.
We roasted a particularly big bird last weekend, so I decided to do the leftover chicken justice by making a few pies. It’s a pretty easy recipe, especially if you buy ready rolled puff pastry from the supermarket. The below will make 4 small pies or one biggun. Here’s how it’s done.
Ingredients
250g roast chicken – mixture of white and brown meat
1 large leek, finely chopped
1 large carrot, chopped
1 large clove garlic, chopped
2 rashers smoked bacon, chopped
70g chestnut mushrooms
300ml chicken stock
1ooml single cream
100ml white wine
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Tags: Bacon, Carrot, Chicken, Leek, Mushrooms, Pastry, Pie, Puff, Roast, Salad, Single Cream, stock, White Wine
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Veal had a bit of a bad rep in the 80s, but that didn’t stop the veal escalope becoming one of my favourite things to eat when I was growing up. There used to be this great Italian restaurant called La Baita up the road from my folk’s place in North London that we’d to go to on a pretty regular basis. I pretty much always ordered the veal escalope, which was served with sauteed potatoes and deep fried courgette. Not exactly healthy, but very tasty.
This is a bit of a remix of that childhood favourite. The prep is a bit fiddly, but well worth it.
Ingredients
For the Veal
2 veal escalopes
Seasoned plain flour
Thyme, finely chopped
Breadcrumbs (enough to coat both escalopes – 250 ish g)
1 egg, beaten
For the Courgette & Potato Cake
1 large potato, grated
3 courgettes, grated
1 medium onion, finely sliced
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Tags: Breadcrumbs, Cake, Chilli, Courgette, Egg, Escalope, Italian, Lemon, Milanese, parmesan, Potato, Recipe, Salad, thyme, Veal
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
There’s an old adage about doing one thing well as opposed to doing a few things averagely, which would have been very apt for this post, but despite trawling the whole interwebs I can’t find it. Oh well.
So last night our fiends Charlotte and Mark introduced to us this restaurant called Relais de Venise L’Entrecôte. It seems it’s a bit of an institution, but somehow never made it onto my radar. It’s on Marylebone Lane, right opposite the awesome Golden Hind fish and chip shop (which deserves a post all of its own – all in good time), and is a great example of the benefits of the ‘do one thing well’ mantra.
At L’Entrecôte there’s basically no menu. You sit down (after a lengthy queue if you arrive at peak times) and get served a lettuce and walnut salad with a lovely mustardy vinaigrette, followed by steak frites. The steak comes served thinly sliced, covered in the restaurants own special sauce, the recipe of which is closely guarded. And that’s it. Kind of.
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Tags: Frites, L’Entrecôte, Le Relais de Venise, Marylebone, Red Wine, Restaurant, Salad, Steak
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
It was Valentines Day at the weekend, and as Hand To Mouth got engaged at New Years, I thought I’d better make a bit of an effort. Not being a fan of going to restaurants on VDay (always disappointing) I whipped up a three course feast fit for the future Mrs HTM. The menu:
Salt & Pepper Squid
Baked Cod & Leeks
Lemon Posset with Lemon & Almond Shortbread
I’m going to do a post per course as I don’t have the time to do them all at once, so first up our starter, Salt & Pepper Squid. If you can’t get hold of Szechuan peppercorns, just use 3/4 of a tablespoon of black peppercorns instead.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon Szechuan peppercorns, ground
1 teaspoon chilli flakes
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Tags: Chilli, Cornflour, Flour, Lemon, Pepper, Rapeseed Oil, Salad, Salt, Spring Onion, Squid, Szechuan peppercorns
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
I was first taken to Mangal 1 6 or so years ago by my friends Lou and Liam who lived down the road in Hackney at the time, and I’ve been going back ever since. Back then it had a real impact on me because I’d never really been anywhere like it in the UK before. It’s completely unpretentious, a bit ramshackle, and when you step through the door you feel like you’re in a different country.
You immediately get hit by the heat and smell of grilling meat from the massive open barbecue style grill that is slap bang in the middle of the restaurant. And that’s what the Turkish ocakbasi restaurants are all about. Meat and fire. The menu is dominated by kebabs, mostly lamb and chicken, although you can also get quail and offal too. I suggest you go with a few friends, because you’re going to want to try everything, but I can heartily recommend the following. (more…)
Tags: Cacik, Chicken, Grill, Kebab, Lamb, Mangal, Ocakbasi, Sac breads, Salad, Sumac, Turkish
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Hand To Mouth is back from New York. As usual I ate well in the city that never sleeps, but I also came back with a nasty dose of the flu which has had me on my back for the last three days. Not sure if it was the swine variety or not, but that’s irrelevant, as this post is ALL about the beef.
Going to Peter Luger’s pretty much as soon as I get off the plane in in NY has become a bit of a tradition. The routine goes. Land in NY. Head to Williamburgh. Dump bags at my mate Matt’s place. Head to Luger’s with him. Eat large quantities of meat. Drink a couple of beers. Sleep. Come round smiling the next day.
Peter Luger has been rated New York’s number one steakhouse for twenty four years in a row. For a town that prides itself on good food, that’s a serious accolade. They have two outlets, one in Williamburgh and one in Long Island, but it’s no chain; it’s an institution. (more…)
Tags: Bacon, Brooklyn, New York, Peter Luger, Porterhouse, Salad, Steak, steak sauce
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