Leiths Week 8: Wood pigeon & black pudding salad and apple strudel

In week 8 of the Leiths Confident Cooking course we deboned wood pigeon and made strudel from scratch. Apple strudel I really enjoyed this class. It never occurred to me that we would be making the filo pastry for the apple strudel from scratch. Nor that making filo would be so much fun. Who knew? [...]

Leiths Week 7: Amaretto pavlovas and chilli squid salad

This week was my favourite Leiths lesson so far. We made chilli squid salad for our savoury dish and individual amaretti pavlovas for dessert. They were both amazing and very photogenic, as you can see. I took my camera along for the first time and I’m almost tempted to just let the pictures speak for [...]

Winter salad with parsnip, blue cheese, walnut and pear

This is my entry for the monthly Waiter There’s Something in My… event. This month it is hosted by Andrew at Spittoon Extra and the theme is salad. He’s called for the salad to be seasonal if possible and for me in England that means a winter salad. I eat a lot of salad at [...]

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