After sampling a couple of the dishes from the Junior Masterchef magazine, made by my niece, I decided I had to have a copy of my own! The recipes, as well as tasting delicious, are, of course, easy to follow and don't have too many ingredients - so just about my level. The first dish I tried myself was an easypeasy gnocchi with tomato, red pepper and mozzarella and which was made in a trice - perfect!
Carrots and peas were part of our pickings from our last trip to the PYO farm. My small assistant was a great help with the podding, until she started to put the peas back in their pods......
They were then cooked up in to this unseasonal-looking Japanese dish, niku jaga - pork, onion, carrot, peas and new potatoes, cooked with soy sauce, sake, sugar and fish stock and served with rice.
Gooseberries, with those visible veins, give me the creeps.
This batch from the local PYO farm became this Fool which was far, far tastier than it looks. It was tart and sweet at the same time - but, I have to confess, its main appeal came from the masses of double cream!
For Father's Day we made lemon drizzle cake, using a fantastic expandable cake tin sent from New Zealand. Delicious!
Almost too pretty to eat!
(apple crumble in thrifted pyrex)
(Orange Jelly)
(Blancmange)
Butterbeans with sweet chilli sauce and herbs from the Ottolenghi cookery book. Delicious!
