Avavcado Toast

This is not a recepie, anyone can do it, it's just toast with butter, marmite and mashed up avacado on top, but it is damn good....If you like marmite and you like avacado put them on tost together and you will be glad you did, I used to eat this nearly every day for breakfast in Australia.
You could also add cream cheese or melted chedder.









I agree it's not the most appealing thing to look at!!

Work Work Work

I love my new job I really do but it means I have no time for anything else!!! I have worked for two weeks strait without a day off...... I have Sunday off this week and I am really looking forward to do doing some cooking and writing about here. In the meantime here are some lovely flowers to look at because Spring is here!!

Red Wine Riotto and Harissa Roast Chicken

I had half a bottle of red wine and some Japenease rice and apparntly you can use Japenease rice as a replacement for aborio risotto rice and it worked like a dream. I made risotto in the same way you always do with the butter and the wine and the stock, I roasted a whole chicken smothered in Harissa paste and olive oil with some whole onions thrown in in the roasting tin. I added the sticky sweet onions to the risotto and sliced the breast off the chicken, placed it on top of the risotto with some rocket and it was some kind of food porngasm....




My amazing camera skills you all know and love perfectly shown in this photo


My two lovely harissa covered roast chicken breasts that I used my self trained knife skills to remove from the roasted bird(please note the hint of sarcasm here)


A photo that isn't blurry, there is hope for me yet

Food treasure from Portugal and 'Elvers'

Look at all the lovely things my Mum bought me back from Portugal, I'm a very happy girl indeed. I got some truffle cream made with a type of truffle called 'Black Summer' and I have to admit that I have never tried truffle in any form and I love all fungi so am looking forward to trying that. I got a gorgeous bottle of pink rose syrup that I can use for cakes, piri piri which is in almost everything in Portugal, extra virgin olive oil, some pinchitos which I think is some kind of spice mix used for meat skewers in Spanish tapas. I also got a hazelnut sausage/chorizo that I have no idea what to do with but strangest of all was the tin of baby eels or 'Elvers' in some kind of spicy garlic sauce. Now I know there is some controversy about eating these little 'Elvers' and I have never tried them before and am intrigued to know more about them, my Mum said it was a bit naughty to have them and she's hippy woman of the year but she thinks I should try them once, what do you think??


I'm really not to sure about eating these little guys, the photo on the front isn't the most appetizing, they look like malnurished slugs!


Sorry the pictures so blurry, I had to use a very bad camera phone because I'm waiting for a new memory card for my actual camera!

Roast Root Soup

Even though it's the start of spring it's still bloody cold and wearing big jumpers and eating soup are high on my list of prioritys!! I went out last night and so am feeling a bit sorry for myself today and definatly did not want to go to the shops for supplies so I just raided the veg drawer to make this yummy soup.
I roasted carrot's and parsnips in the oven for half an hour before adding them to the pan I was sauteing swede, potato and onion in. I added some home-made chicken stock and seasoning and when the veg was tender I blitzed the lot.


Blurry veg shot



I put a big spoonful of sour cream on the top and a huge amount of pepper and it was good....Another picture on my windowsill, I don't know why