Pak choi and potato soup.

a light creamy refreshing soup.

Ingredients.

1 large pak choi
1 large leek
1 small onion
4 medium potatoes
1 bunch fresh parsley
250ml double cream
2 tsp olive oil
1 pint chicken stock
salt a pepper to taste

Peel the potatoes and roughly chop with the rest of the veg, add to a large hot oiled frying pan and cook for 5mins until they just start to colour, transfer to a large pot and add chicken stock to cover the veg, boil until soft and add to a soup blender with the parsley salt and pepper ( at least 15 turns of the pepper mill for me), blend till smooth pour back into the pot let cool for a few mins and stir in the cream and serve.

Griddled Tuna.
Just testing out my new griddle Iron from my parents for my birthday, thanks guys

Ingredients.

200ml chicken stock
50g polenta
handful mushrooms
1/2 leek
salt
pepper
tuna steak
25g parmesan cheese
1 tsp oil

Slowly whisk in the stock into the polenta while on a medium heat for 2min and cheese and cook for a further 1min, fry leeks and mushrooms in plenty of pepper, finally brush the tuna with oil and season and place on a steaming hot griddle for around 1min -1min 30sec on each side and serve.

Heart shaped cinnamon and chocolate wreath.

The heart shaped cake I made for my wife on woman's day :-)

Ingredients.
2 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup warm water
1.6 grams or 0.6 oz dry yeast
1/8 melted butter
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 softened butter
4 tbsp sugar
3 tsp cinnamon
75g nutella melted
Mix the yeast and sugar with the water and leave for 15 mins till it bubbles up and foams, add the egg yolk the melted butter and flour and salt , knead into a ball, place in a greased bowl in a warm place till it doubles in size about 1hr. Preheat oven gas mark 7 dust your work surface  very well and roll out to 1/2 cm, mix melted butter sugar cinnamon and nutella and spread all over, roll up the dough and cut lengthways and Plat and shape into and heart, place on a baking tray brush with butter, bake for 10mins then reduce heat to gas mark 4 for 20-25 mins and Enjoy 

Homemade Gnocchi with fresh pesto.
A Flavourful delight you must make fresh a dish made with my new food processor from my wife and my daughter for my birthday thanks guys.

 

 

Ingredients.

 

 

75g pine nuts

2 handfuls of basil leaves

the juice of 1 lemon

Olive oil to taste

salt

pepper

100g parmesan

4 medium potatoes

80g Plain flour

1 egg beaten

 

First put the potatoes in the microwave for 8 mins or until fluffy inside, take the skin off and mash add to the flour and  make a well in the middle, fill the well with the egg and mix in from the egg out, till you form a dough add more flour or egg if needed. roll into a  sausage shape cut 1inch thick

and roll each piece against the back of a folk to form grooves, boil in salt water till they rise to the top, about 2-3 mins then drain.

For the sauce toast the nuts in a pan and add to a food processor with basil, lemon juice salt pepper parmesan and mix pouring the oil in while mixing till it forms a sauce. serve on the gnocchi with a side salad